The wonderful thing about freedom of choice is just that; the freedom to
choose.
Like you, I abhor insidious programs which, whilst protecting copyright,
"invade" my computer in order to do so.
So I won't be buying GTR either....not that such a move will bring the
developer crashing to its knees in a flurry of stock exchange selling
transactions, but I will be disappointed, as I was looking forward to this
sim as a possible "replacement" for GPL.

However, what this just might do is to have me looking elsewhere other than
the local retailer for a copy; now how ironic would *that* be?!!

Bruce

"Chris Pound" > wrote in message
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> Because they are putting Starforce protection drivers in it. Even the
> freaking demo has Starforce in it. I didn't buy HL2 because of Steam
> and I certainly won't buy anymore games with Starforce after buying
> Toca2. I classify Starforce as a Trojan. Look it up.