Strictly hypothetical question about CD burners...

[ddeder]

Do some software CD's have anti-piracy protection to prevent them from being copied to another CD? If so, might that software cause the following error when trying to copy the CD:

T0100: I/O error (03/73/03) - CD error - power calibration area error
T7118: TrackWriter error - Command retry failed

If this were not caused by some sort of anti-piracy code, is there an explanation as to why trying to copy this CD would ALWAYS cause this error while other CD's can be copied without a problem?

Strictly hypothetical of course.

In the past, before CD's when all software came on a floppy disk, the software always said that you were allowed to make a backup of the disk. Is this still true for CD's?

 

[dvdwriters]

Your media is bad ... thats what those errors mean.

 

[ddeder]

Remember, this is hypothetical...

That's what I thought at first so I tried another CD and it failed too. So then I did a test by burning a music CD to a third CD and it worked fine. Is it just coincidence that I picked two bad CD's in a row? These would be the first two bad CD's that I have ever encountered.

 

[4824guy]

Yes, alot of game CD's come with some type of anti-copying features. Sometimes you can copy them but the game won't play or install correctly.

 

[6TNINE]

I have never seen any cd w/ any anti-copying thing on it that actually stops copying. someone give me a real example of anti-copy $hit. it annoys me when people make stuff up.

 

[4824guy]

Here is a link to a location which lists a bunch of anti-copy methods that are sometimes used.

here

Click on the "cd protections' article in the drop down menu.



<< someone give me a real example of anti-copy $hit. it annoys me when people make stuff up. >>

Please do some reading on the industries anti-copying methods. While some methods are easily solved, others are not with the the general mastering software.