@Stargazer: The copy protection was forced on them by the publisher.
@Stargazer²: Also not a fan of Starforce (used to run xp 64bit)
Btw does any one know if BD will be playable with Windows Vista (thinking of going Vista bèta on my pc).
I should warn you -- there was a website that tried running Splinter Cell 3, which is StarForce equipped, on Vista -- and a bunch of other games back in an article from May 30, 2006. The StarForce game DID NOT work on Vista: Beta 2.
StarForce is very driver-specific -- so, likely if we're going to get StarForce games to work on Vista, StarForce will have to update their drivers for Vista or Microsoft would have to do something w/ Vista to get SF-based games going. Chances are: I'd bet SF would have to update their drivers.
Some companies have gone the route of removing their SF-based drivers from their games -- such as Egosoft removed them for X2, yet now they are planning a patch for X3: Reunion that will remove them for later this year from X3.
I really hope that Larian would do the same and remove SF from their BD game in a patch, so my copy of BD can actually have a future and run on Vista, if I so choose to in the future...
For more info, look below on the problems SF has w/ Vista Beta 2:
Link 1 -- 1Up's news on StarForce games not working on Vista Beta 2:
Click here!Link 2 -- ExtremeTech testing some games on Vista Beta 2:
Click here!! 
