Re: Personal backup of copy-protected DVDs

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

T o n g wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:53:19 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
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>   
> > On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com> wrote:
> >     
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> > > > > 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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>   

Yup, I can confirm this.  Took a copy righted cd game, dd'ed it and 
tried to launch it in windows.  No go.  It wanted the original game 
disk.  And I think it is SecuROM "new", at least as far as I have been 
able to tell from Google.

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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com