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Comment Re:I'm confused... (Score 1) 536

How so? so let's say they put in some "hardware". When the program needs to validate the disc, the CD-ROM has to be able to read something back to the program. So, if the "hardware" communicates 000110100101011101, then those bits could be burned to a CDR.

The only thing that makes any snese is if something was put into a protion of a CD that ANY reader can read, but no burner can burn. I'm not really sure if an area like that exists, but i don't doubt it, as there is probably some kind of "information header" on the far inside of the disc. maybe a burner couldn't write to an area like that.

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