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  1. Re:Why do we need legislation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful · on Alternatives to the CBDTPA?
    Most copies of Office XP are bought by, well, offices. Most copies of Britney's CDs are bought by your average teenager. One buyer is easier to audit than the other.

    That's a poor analogy. A better one would be to compare the music industry with the computer game industry (because a big part of their market are teenagers). Even though most computer games are "copy-protected", they can still be almost trivially copied (*cough* CloneCD *cough*) and the computer game industry hasn't collapsed yet, nor are computer game companies pushing for CBDTPA-like protection.

  2. Not that great by legLess · · Score: 5, Informative · on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers
    Apparently these CDs still adhere to the Red Book (somehow). But the consensus seems to be that the Key2Audio protection isn't that great:
    • Bypassing it: CDFreaks article, although I don'tthink they're the original posters of this method.
    • Hardware solution: AOpen CD 56X AKH/A80 (unconfirmed)
    • Windows software solution #1: EAC. This is truly excellent software in its own regard, and apparently it bypasses Key2Audio nicely. You're better off Googling for EAC, as the site isn't updated often. Also check out the EAC mailing list, and this message in particular.
    • Windows software solution #2: CloneCD. Many swear by it, but I haven't used it myself.
    Most importantly, the tests are over - this is for real. It seems that Celine is Sony's biggest-selling "artist" - they wouldn't use her as a beta test.
  3. Re:Mutisession cd's? That's all? by 742Evergreen · · Score: 2, Informative · on Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield

    They tested about 10 drives in the article, and they all encountered some problems while reading, except for the AOpen CRW2440 (up to 91% with CDDAE, up to 100% with EAC).

    They managed to copy the disc with CloneCD and the Aopen drive. They also tried to copy it whith one other drive (TDK CyClone 161040), but that one encountered read errors.

    "The CDS200 cd-r backup does contain the CDS200 protection, however now is FULLY readable from all tested drives"

    Translation: Rip away.

    Also interesting to know is the amount of read errors in the original versus the copy. The diagram can be found here.

    In short, the "real" cd was one solid block of read errors, the copy had a few spikes, but those were nothing compared to the other, both in frequency and seriousness (note that the scale in the two diagrams is vastly different).

  4. One step ahead of the DCMA... by Graelin · · Score: 1 · on Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield

    It's sad, but you're probably right. Just in case anyone wants to archive this stuff, I thought I'd dig out links to all the software they reviewed in the article... ;)

    IsoBuster
    feurio!
    Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
    Clone CD

  5. Region 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Hitchhiker's Guide DVD to be released on January 28

    What's that?

  6. Just use clone CD in raw bit mode by DABANSHEE · · Score: 2 · on DVD Drives Defeat Cactus Data Shield

    or whatever its called.

    Although it only works with readers & writers that are raw bit or whatever compatible.

    It just copies the raw binary patern or something off the CD onto another one.

    So if its a copy protected CD, you just end up with an identical copy protected CD

    "Just set it up to ignore errors, so it doesn't try to amend the errors".

  7. CloneCD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on More Copy Protected CDs?

    Many of the CDs on that list can be copied with CloneCD with most of the newer burners. Only some burners, however, can clone a SafeDisc2 CD.