I had some friends who installed a game with this Starforce copy-protection technology on it. All had serious problems with reading other CDs after the installation, and one did indeed have a hardware failure on his burner and have to replace it. And uninstalling the game did NOT get rid of the Starforce stuff; one ended up badgering the manufacturer until they told him how to clean it totally off his system.
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Could this be why you have to keep getting new CD Rom drives? Does Warcraft have this stuff on it?
Starforce. (spit)
I bought a game a few weeks ago, installed it, played for a little while, then got an urge to play an older game that I own. However, it'd crash on the opening screen. I spent several hours looking for a technical fix for the problem with no luck. Finally, I uninstalled the new game (and d/l a program to remove Starforce as well) and voila, problem disappeared. I was skeptical about the claims about Starforce causing problems before, but I'm not now.