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I didn't want to post on this kind of subject, but after reading the article of starforce that Soulcommander puts on link, i feel forced too :

I think that the debate around Starforce protection must be handled by the community on a very mature basis.
The problem of hacking is a true problem. That Ubi tries to protect himself against people that hack, this is totally legitim. If Starforce does it well it's great. There is no discussion about it.

The true problem and debate is when Starforce says on the article :

The compatibility problems do occur with any protection system and the statistics of StarForce lie within the standard. As for Alcohol 120% and alike there are no conflicts that StarForce would cause, because the protection system is tested for compatibility with these programs. And our technical support received zero feedback from people who had to totally rebuild their computers because of StarForce drivers. According to our research those of users that do run into compatibility problems are beginner-level-hackers that try to go around our protection system.

I don't think it's true. When i installed for the first time my DVD of Silent Hunter, i had really very BIG problems with my computer. I spent a lot of time solving it and considered to rebuild my computer. I finally solved my problem and managed to install it again. But, i spent a lot of my free time doing it and if Silent Hunter was not a superb game i wouldn't had even tried to install it again. But the most important is that i was amazed on the number of costumers like me who had various problems with Starforce protection.
I can't believe seeing the amount of posts on forums and the pages on the client support of Ubi related to starforce problems that

The compatibility problems do occur with any protection system and the statistics of StarForce lie within the standard.

I don't think also that it's a mature answer from Starforce to say

According to our research those of users that do run into compatibility problems are beginner-level-hackers that try to go around our protection system.

If asking for help because you bought a game and have problems with it qualifies you for hacking suspicions this is not a normal client support relation.

So i believe that if people of the gaming community is concerned with this problem just try to prove that the compatibilty problems are really above normal standarts. I don't think you'll have to much problem doing that, considering the amount of posts on the subject on all the gaming forums.