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Did you try to copy SECDRV.SYS from windows Vista/7/8 system folder to windows 10 one?

Also, while we are at it, I found out SafeDisc is no longer Macrovision's business.

While I still couldn't figure out the whole DRM history, with some help here and there I found out this intellectual property got transferred to Trymedia (RealNetworks) in 2008.
In spring 2009 then, it went EOL and between September and October it disappeared from the website.

What has since been of this company is unknown. Somewhere in 2013 their website was taken down (even though it's not like it had received any update in the previous 4 years)

Days ago however, Macrovision gave a reply as if the product was still theirs.

Speaking of solving this mess, this is the early scheme behind the protection.
You can read more about first versions and attempts to crack it.

Then version 2 came out and it was still pretty easy to bypass.
A very good round up of tools (with a lot of dead links that can be retrieved as always by Wayback Machine) is available in.. one of the sister website of gamecopyworld (surprise)
There are also in deep explanations to unpack SafeCast 2 (Safedisc 2's brother, but for any kind of software, not only games)

Last, some info about SafeDisc 3, and again some tools (up to 4.6).
This being possibly the holy grail (every newer version).

And along the way I found some instructions for perfect (?) backups too, even though that could not apply in our case of course, with no functioning driver at all.
and TIL SafeDisc can degrade performance

EDIT: is this The Holy Grail?
EDIT2: god! So many modern tools!
EDIT3: I can't believe I had missed all this stuff?