Copy data from a copyright protected cd to hard drive

[Zubeen]

hi,
i have problem while copying my data,image from my cd to Segate 160 gb sata hard disk drive,it gives an message that it is copyright protected.anyone know how to Copy data from a copyright protected cd to hard drive.Any help will be extremely appreciated.

[ThoMas321]

Make an image of the cd with clonecd, copy the image to the hard drive of your laptop and mount it on a daemon tools stealth drive.

[Macarenas]

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[JonathanD]

SAFEAUDIO is a later, more advanced (and more controversial) method of copy protection. It works by deliberately corrupting the audio data on the CD, such that a player will have to use C2 (software error hiding) to play the CD properly. C2 is normally used when the CD is too badly scratched for C1 error correction to be able to read perfect data off the CD. CD players (including CD-ROM drives asked to 'play' the CD) carry out C2 automatically, while CD-ROM drives 'ripping' the CD will extract a bit-perfect copy of the damaged data, which will contain the deliberately introduced errors. This method has met with widespread criticism, amidst fears that it may lead to lesser audio quality, and earlier failure of the disk. Macrovision bought MusicGuard from TTR to create SAFEAUDIO.

[Glenny]

hi,
It could be a damaged disk. Some kind of scratch or something. Playing a CD properly without hassels is altogether different than copying a CD. Players ignore the slight error. But while copying - bit by bit - the OS will stop the moment it encounters error.