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From: timsuh@uclink.berkeley.edu (Tim Suh)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-ROM copy protection
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 11:55:28 -0800
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> So yes, jeff ivler, some CD-ROMs are designed deliberatley to disallow
> running copies from magneto optical cartridges and such.

>> But if someone can get the file onto magneto optical, they can probably
>> just as easily debug the software and remove the copy protection
>> checking code.

Does anybody know of software that will do a direct sector by sector image
of a cd-rom (and store it on a hard drive)? It seems that you would be able
to preserve all the copy protection restrictions that way.