Wht not avail of the wonderful invention of Game Cracks? Then you don't need
the CD to run the game - so you can break it if you want!
Here's a good site for cracks -> www.megagames.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Bridge <tbridge at vianetworks.ie>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: [ILUG] CD Burning
> At the risk of reopening the flame war on proprietry games, I have a
question.
>> I run Windows as well as Linux at home - mostly because my favourite games
> (Age of Empires, Red Alert etc) are not available for Linux. I
recently
> managed to break one of my game CDs, and this got me thinking about making
> backup copies with the CD burner I bought recently.
>> Problem is the CD protection - I've found a program to help me make backup
> copies under Windows, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience of
> this under Linux? The HOWTO on CD Writing doesn't cover "getting
around"
> copy protection.
>> I will now insert the standard disclaimer about piracy being a bad thing,
> and that this is purely for personal use, which has the advantage of
> actually being the truth,
>> Thanks,
>> T.
>>>
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