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Microsoft disabled the SafeDisc driver on Windows in 2015, but now there's a way to play those old titles.
The biggest benefit of SafeDiscShim for people who want to play their old games off discs is that it amends the main issues with SafeDisc without technically bypassing copy protection. It's more of a simple driver fix than anything else, but it makes games rendered unplayable on Windows now safely playable once more, without risking a forced unsafe driver install or a cracked executable.