Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:53:19 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
> On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com> wrote:
>> >> My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected
>> >> DVDs.
>> >>
>> >> Anybody knows how to do that with Linux?
>
> Have a look here:
> 'Simple CD-ROM & ISO image cookbook.' -->
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/273
> It _is_ as simple as `dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mycd.iso` but there are
> some
> other neat cd tricks listed in the article.
Legal or not aside, the answer is unfortunately NO -- not under Linux.
Whether dd, or cat or other neat tricks listed in the article, they
are just not built to circumvent the copy protection, but become the
perfect victim of it. I.e., copy protections like weak sectors, SecuROM
*new*, SecuROM 4.8x, LaserLock and SafeDisc, they are just build to not
allow disk to be read correctly, even dd *claims* to read disks *bit by
bit*. Ref:
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/video/dvdvcd/dv10-CDDVDCopyProtection/
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