Keeping CDs from being copied

[CetiAlphaV]

Does anyone know of a way to keep a cd from being copied.

 

[Budman]

Make a big scratch with a nail on the Cd, It will make it unreadable.

 

[A2KLAU]

And UNCOPYABLE!!! Which is what you are looking for!!!
To be serious what CDs are we looking at here? CD-R, CD-RW, Normal CDs?

SKY.

I got to love that big scratch down the middle! Great one Budman!

 

[AngelOfDeath]

LMAO .

With what purpose?.

AoD

 

[fkloster]

With "Blindread & Blindwrite suite", you would have to put a nail through the media cause there aint nothin' I can't rip no more. Yahoo

 

[A2KLAU]

This is an interesting thread! Keep the replies coming in folks on how to prevent CDs from being copied!

SKY.

 

[Shazam]

Put the words "AOL: Now with 500 free hours!" on it. No one will even touch the CD.

 

[A2KLAU]

That is a good one! Scan in the CD face and then print it out and use a CD Labler thing to stick it on and then nobody will ever want to go near the CD.

SKY.

 

[celeritas]

Ditto about BR/BW.

 

[backWERD]

I know I would touch it!!!!:Q I think I would break it in a hundred tiny shads and throw it in the dumpster so that might not be the best idea.


but seriously though.


I know for a while dvd's couldnt be ripped because they were encrypted. but with a very low encryption. If you could make it a higher encryption that would probably work at least for a little while

 

[pdo]

If big companies couldn't stop people from copying their cd's then what makes you think all the geeks here could.

 

[Hanpan]

paldo ahs a point....

 

[randomlinh]

ID did a pretty good job w/ q3.. the whole cd key thing seems to be very effective... for online play.

but yeah, whatever comes out, there will eventually be a way around it most likely. The most difficult things I see right now would be ps2 games that utilized the entire capacity of their discs.

 

[Stealth1024]

The important question includes: How do you defeat copy protection measures on CD's?

Take the game Unreal for example. I tried to make a copy (strictly for backup purposes of course) and although the data copied, when the game runs it fails the "CD verification process". I have noted this problem with several other applications.

 

[SuperFreaky]

what program did you use to copy it?? Acraptec?? if so, thats your problem, get CloneCD

 

[backWERD]

Paldo thats the key big corporations cant do it little guys can reason being Little guys can change things quicker. Corporates usually take longer to make changes. If you were to develope you own cd protection. that was unlike anyother no utility would be able to copy it because in order to copy it they would have to right a new utility to hack it. and being a little guy it would be very unlikely whatever you put out becomes very popular. especially popular to have a cd hack burner program.

think if you were to develope sometype of worm on your cd that would attach itself to your pc burners subsystem and all know cdhack burners. so that they would not be able to burn or read correctly.

 

[Dameon]

The problem is back, for a small guy, that just means their CD will never get anywhere or GO anywhere. It'd never sell. the ability to copy the CD allows for distribution beyond the scale of a startup.

 

[Fant]

Current "key" based copy protection doesnt really work. It doesn't stop you from copying the cd...just stops you from using the cd unless you have a valid key which you can easily get.

Some of the newer effective copy protection schemes record bad sectors on the cd intentionally in specific locations which the game executable looks for to verify you have an original. When copying the cd, you usually get a copy without the bad sectors or fixed bad sectors which either the cdr software or cdr firmware does. Some newer recorders can burn "bad sectors" and newer software uses this feature to get around this form of copy protection.

Most of these copy protection methods look for things that consumer recorders overlook to save cost and use that for the copy protection. With a presser you can probably copy anything without much issue.