Silent Hunter III Starforce Protection

[kiwi_dude]

im a middle age guy that frantically plays SH3 alot, i brought the dvd version when it first came out, without knowing it had "That Starforce" Now SH3 is up to patch 1.4b and still no image to DL of GCW? Why? is SH3 to hard to crack? Ive read on other forums that Silent Hunter III is the first game of its kind that has the crackers chewing there finger nails. If this is gonna beat piracy fare enough, but unless i come across an image sooner or later my dvd is gonna be unreadable. Starforce through my experience can ruin/disable some readers. Theres alot of arguments going on at the sub forums www.subsim.com over the Starforce protection 98% hate it. Yes i know its created to stop piracy but it also ruins it for us honest gamers. Out of a poll on SH3 the question asked was "Would you buy Silent Hunter 3 or the upcoming 4 if you know that starforce is on it. 96% of SH3 players including myself answered no.
Anyways is there an image for SH3 and also can anyone tell me why my image for BF2 now dont work since i updated BF2 to version 1.03, aren't images the same meaning they dont have to be updated for the latest versions. Thanks in advance.