PC Games has always had some form of copy protection associated with it since the beginning of the PC gaming industry, manual look ups, code wheels, star maps... Then in the CD era we had the copy protection systems that detered the copying of the actual CD.

And now.. there's StarForce, the current super champion of copy protection that's just causing all sort of grief around the PC gaming world. Just do a quick Google on the name and you'll find a whole load of sites against it. We've had copy protection that stops legitamate users from playing a game before but this is something different.

First of all it installs DRIVERS and other various service that poke and prod your system even when you're NOT playing the game!! And the most recent news is that if the background service feels that you're trying to do something illegal, it'll force a windows restart on you.. BLAM.. there goes all your work cause the service thought you were running something illegal.

Makes me feel glad that I've pretty much swore off PC Gaming already, my consoles and handhelds serve me well enough for entertainment. :P