Comment Disks not copy protected (Score 2, Informative) 451
Guys:
You can not copy protect a CD. What they have done is restricted the players that will PLAY the CD. A computer can not PLAY the cd but it certainly can COPY the CD. As long as CD writers are available that write in RAW mode, you will be able to copy any CD. As long is their is LINUX, CD writers will be manufactured with RAW write capability. Almost all CDR's manufactured today have this capability, and I am fairly shure that all CDR's that are 8.8.16 or older will. Here is the URL of a company that makes a nice piece of software that will copy these CD's.
http://www.elby.org/CloneCD/english/index.htm
This software does not break the incryption so there is no problem under the DMCA. It simply does a binary image of the CD in RAW MODE. Works basically the same way as GHOST works for imaging a hard drive.
TOM
You can not copy protect a CD. What they have done is restricted the players that will PLAY the CD. A computer can not PLAY the cd but it certainly can COPY the CD. As long as CD writers are available that write in RAW mode, you will be able to copy any CD. As long is their is LINUX, CD writers will be manufactured with RAW write capability. Almost all CDR's manufactured today have this capability, and I am fairly shure that all CDR's that are 8.8.16 or older will. Here is the URL of a company that makes a nice piece of software that will copy these CD's.
http://www.elby.org/CloneCD/english/index.htm
This software does not break the incryption so there is no problem under the DMCA. It simply does a binary image of the CD in RAW MODE. Works basically the same way as GHOST works for imaging a hard drive.
TOM
