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some days ago I downloaded the sims 2 with a torrent I got from SuprNova.org, I have Nero Installed, Alcohol 120% and CDClone installed... I heard the game has a CD protection when the image is mounted with nero image drive, but I mounted the .CCD image with alcohol 120% and it works just fine.

I'm sorry, I didn't RTFA and I don't know if the torrent came pre-cracked (which I doubt, they usually come clean and include a crack in another directory anyway)

The game is not a huge upgrade compared with the original game, the only difference is the 3D environment, the personal aspirations, a *slightly* improved AI and a few space related fixes. (still can't place objects in diagonal walls)

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Who the hell are these guys? I'm glad the game publishing industry is so clued up on these things that nobody uses. If they were really serious they'd go after Alcohol Software or Elaborate Bytes, both of whom offer CD/DVD copying software with options to "break" copy protection. Of course they don't "break" the copy protection at all, they simply copy the copy protection.

As Macrovision (creators of SafeDisc) have said in the past, their products are not so much copy protection as copy dissuasion: making it more of a pain in the ass to copy stuff. And it sure is. Copying a SafeDisced game takes hours in raw mode, as exactly duplicating the ECC/EDC data on the disc is a painfully slow process (probably because ECC/EDC checking has to be done in software for every block when it's disabled on the drive).

Anyway, all the above is besides the point. 321Studios have made a critical error which I see as remarkably foolish: Marketing their product as "HAY GUYS, SOFTWAREZ TO KOPY UR GAMEZ!" Who in their right mind would do this and not expect their ass to be kicked severely by some legal body? You don't get any more obvious than calling it "GameXCopy" which is a name that doesn't even make sense anyway. What the hell is the X about? Other software remains legal because it sells itself on the fact you can create exact clones of any CD for back up purposes: not just games.

It's not this kind of software they should be going after anyway. People don't copy games onto another CD anymore. People create images of a game and distribute it over the internet. It's considerably easier to create an image file, and from what I can tell GameXCopy doesn't let you do this. Furthermore, software such as Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120% and Virtual CloneDVD will let you mount ripped protected images in Windows as if they were a CD-ROM drive. Just download and mount. No burning. Surely this should be what they're worried about?

I'm really surprised that Alcohol 120% isn't on the blacklist!

I'd say...just rip out your CD-RW / DVD (re)writer and then copy to ISO w/ A-120, then burn that!

There's always a loophole!

Who remembers things like "off disk copy protection", or disks that were purposely damaged to as to be uncopyable? ...most people ... had to put up with looking up codes in manuals or long load times (because of drives choking on bad sectors). There was a backlash, and now you don't see that anymore...

Pretty much every PC game these days comes with a CD you need in the drive when it runs, probably using something like SafeDisc or SecuROM. Admittedly, you can often get round the protection by finding a crack or a program like Alcohol 120%, but not an awful lot has really changed. And these protected discs usually end up breaking the CD-ROM standards, so people can have problems if their hardware is slightly unusual, or they scratch the disc slightly.

check out alcohol %52, it lets you play cd and dvd images off your hard drive like you were playing the actual disc Alcohol %52

There are a few programs that do just this already.

Alcohol 120
Blindwrite
CloneCD

They all do pretty decent jobs making 1:1 backup copies of software. Granted, there are some copy protection schemes they have trouble with (I believe Alcohol 120 had problems with Safecast2 for awhile. Not sure if they've fixed it yet), but all of them are being actively developed and reasonably priced if you're looking for that sort of thing.

Use Alcohol 120% to emulate the DVD, and play it with a PC based player to make sure it works, burn it if there are no problems.

No more erasing and writing RWs.