Burning Copy Protected Cd's

[C4u]

Burning Copy Protected Cd's .

A step by step guide

by c4u



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1] Introduction /Disclamier

2] Type of protections

3] Hardware Req.

4] Software Req.

5] Step bY Step guide


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1] Introduction / Disclamier

This is my first origional tutorial written by me (technical info taken form the web)

hope u guys like it ..

More and more often these days Software companies and Game developers alike are coming up with new ways to stop people creating illegal copies of copyrighted software and games. A more obvious and common way for companies to do this is to use Commercially Developed CDR Protections which when used on the game or software makes it nearly impossible to copy the game. It is illegal to copy or burn a copyrighted game to sell or give to others, which most of you would know, but it is not illegal to make a personal back-up copy for yourself of the game provided you are the original owner of the game. The advantages of making a back-up copy of a game is that once you have the back-up copy you don't need the original so it can be kept safe in the cover and if the back up copy gets scratched you will still have the original game.


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2] Type of protections

The following are the types of protections used to protect a cd from being replicated

CD Checks

SafeDisc

SecuRom

Illegal TOC (Table Of Contents)

OverSized/OverBurn CD's

LaserLock

ProtectCD

DiscGuard

CD-Cops

FADE

StarForce

SafeDisc 2

SecuRom

SecuRom Trigger Functions

In this tutorial we will be backing up a copy of Age Of Empires II (rise of nations)
which is protected by Safe Disc

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3] Hardware Req.

1] A CD burner if u want to burn the backup or equivalent space of the cd on the hardisk
to burn an image and play it from the HDD

700MHz CPU and 128MB RAM is recommended

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4] Software

1] Alcohol 120% [CD burning software] : We will be using Alcohol 120% as the cd burning software , I personally recomend this proggy .
4] and then click on "Run Alcohol 120%"


5] After Alcohol 120% is launched click the Image Making Wizard on the top left and
follow the wizard [remeber u require to have a max of 800mb somewhere on your disc to keep the
image . [ It took me around 25 mins to make the image. so be patient]
Alcohol can make the image in the following formats .cue ,.ccd and .mds
u can chose it to be burned in to any format , i burned the image using mds format



6] After the image is created and if u want to burn it on the cd , go back Alcohol and on the top left menu
chose the second option "Image Burning Wizard" rite below the Image Making Wizard and foolow the waizard
and u will have a backup copy burnt . The backup copy will also have the protection on it.

7] If you want to run it of the HDD go to where the image is stored on the disk and right click and say mount
image , the image will be loaded in the virtual drive created by alcohol.


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Thats it folks ,

Plz post your comments / Suggestion Below

If u have any questions feel free to ask . i will try my level best to answer them

And PLEASE BURN COPY PROTECTED CDS ONLY FOR BACKUP IF YOU HAVE LEAGALLY PURCHASED IT

[bottle]

will the back up cd be copy protected as well ? the only copy protected cd i have is a copy of the audio from mani ratnams new movie aayitha ezhuthu (yuva in hindi) by ar rahman.. it refuses to play on most pcs but once or twice i managed to play it on wmp9 and copied it to my hdd as a wma file . my hi fi too sometimes has problems playing it for some reason but plays ok in the set of my car

[C4u]

The back up cd to will be copy protected.

well i havent tried burring backup of copy protected movies and all

but it shld work ..

i used Age of Empiers II origional cd in this tutorial

[addicted]

Cant we just create an image using WinISO or ISOBuster and then burn that image using Nero(or any other cd burning program)? Will this technique work for copy protected cd's?

BTW very User Friendly tutorial.......keep it up!!!

[C4u]

no u cant just create an image .. it gives you errors ..

so u have to follow it this way to burn it properly

[amitagarwal]

I also want to copy protect my cds
Please tell my the ways to copy protect it
I want to protect software, any mutimedia (songs,etc)
I mean people can listen music and can install software from ths cd but cant copy it to hard disk or to another cd by cd writer

please help me i will be very very thankful to you.