[ILUG] Copying CDs with dd

[Michael Watterson]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Can I copy CDs using dd, even if they have some kind of copyright bar in them?
>
> I hasten to add that I am not thinking of doing anything illegal.
> But my grand-daughter and her friends have dozens of Sims-2 CDs
> which they regularly coat in strawberry jam, chocolate, etc.
> I have to clean CDs regularly -
> you have to put in the appropriate CD to run the program --
> and sooner or later one of them is bound to be beyond hope.
>
> Ps I know this touches on the Word that Must Not be Said,
> referring to a piece of transparent material
> often used to let light into buildings ...
>
>   
My son uses some sort of utility and creates a virtual CD with the files 
on the Hard Disk. Then puts the CD safely away.
A lot of titles need a similar family of utility to have a backup that 
is not a frisbee.

dd is not going to help except on the less smart anti-copy protection.

We found a wiped off smear of baby oil (I don't think it's like Olive 
Oil, it's not made from Babies) on a washed & dried scratched CD allowed 
an otherwise unreadable  disk to  be  read and  then  a "regenerated" 
copy  made.

You need to google on the specific game as there are a number of 
different schemes to prevent archive copy or mounted virtual CDs.



-- 
Mike