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Geek Culture / To copy protect my own CD's on the cheap....

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David R
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 18:10 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2006 18:12
Well, I've had a google around, but can't find anything remotely useful. Basically, all I want to do is copy-protect, in even the most primitive way possible, a CD-R, on the cheap.

There's loads of copy protection apps out there, but mainly for enterprise use. I simply want to prevent my CD-R being directly copied with something like Nero or the Windows CD burning tools; just to deter the more 'simple' users

I've tried ripping an image of the CD-R with Alcohol, and rewriting it with different data sttings, but this of course doesn't really work.

Any ideas/suggestions?

EDIT: Meh, just found this http://www.zappersoftware.com/copy-protection.html but it looks a tad too good to be true. Just d/loading it now...

Quote: "Why would anyone spend that kind of money on rubber jewellery? - Phaelax"
David R
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 18:39
Wow, I just found an ingenious method to copy protect a CD in a simple way, take a read of this:

Quote: "Here's an another example to copy-protect a Data CD by adding a dummy Data track so that the backup disc will have 2 Data tracks.

If the second track has a different CD "mode" than the first then the CD WON'T BE COPIED AT ALL. Tried it on Heroes of Might & Magic 3 and NERO, CDRWin and EasyCD are not able to copy it.

Use the following CDRWin CUE-Sheet to write the CD.
FILE "HMM3.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 73:30:45
"


Quote: "Why would anyone spend that kind of money on rubber jewellery? - Phaelax"
Michael S
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 22:55

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