StarForce developers integrated their cutting-edge technology of StarForce Professional 2.0, the CD-authentication process that doesn't require any 'fingerprints' on a disc's surface, into their much-anticipated version 3.0. StarForce Professional 3.0 is over ten times superior to the well-respected version 2.0 in protection against cracking and illegal copying. It incorporates the unique ability to control a disc's physical parameters, which allows distinguishing not only the licensed discs from illegal copies that are manufactured at a replication facility, but also the discs with the same title made from different glass masters. This distinctive feature tremendously simplifies publishers' control over licensed CD manufacturing.
StarForce Professional 3.0 expands the protection options by introducing a brand new feature, File Protection, which is designed to protect data files that are used by the program. It offers an opportunity for publishers of multi-level games, educational software, and encyclopedias to hide various resources, which are used at a certain level of a game, a specific volume of an encyclopedia, or an educational application's lesson. This kind of copy protection is impossible to neutralize without an in-depth examination of all sections of an application in order to make sure that there are no 'hidden sections' with the protected files left; otherwise, even after breaking the protection, which requires considerable time and effort, the application will still fail to run where the protected files are loaded.
News source: WorthPlaying
