Regarding eLicense, or any other online activation scheme. I think online activation is bad, I'm playing multiple online games that require those schemes, and I'm getting pretty annoyed by the fact that my list of login credentials keeps growing and growing, if i loose the list I'm fracked, because I'm sure no publisher will help out by giving new credentials, they will rather push me to buy a new copy of the game. If you don't believe this, Google for this subject and enjoy, EA, Valve anyone, and these are just the big ones.
I prefer the good old way on installing games off line, with no online requirement/dependency to make it function.
And "Star force" protection, i use a "windows xp 64 bit" operating system, "star force" really is a pain on that architecture, most of the time games with this protection don't work, or display random crashes, game aborts and protection errors.
Anyway, I'm dying to get my copy of CM:SF, according to the spec's and screen shot's it's going to be a classic (and it will have down to earth system requirements, unlike "Armed Assault", which is a disaster). Again my login credential list will expand. Ohh, the horror, the horror the horror....
Oh, I'm a person who buys games, and don't fiddle with pirated software. If you don't like to pay for it, don't use it!
Sheers