| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 11:34:54 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Piracy |
hi,
> At last years trade-only ECTS (Entertainment and Computer Trade Show)
> in London, a company was promoting a method they devised for CD
> producers to make their CDs uncopyable. It uses a special film which
> is applied to the layers of the disc, preventing it from being fully
> copied, but without sacrificing "general readability". Basically, it
> allows you to read parts of the CD at any time, but not the whole lot
> (as to make an ISO image, for example). Don't know how it worked
> because it was their trade secret, or even if it worked at all, but was
> an interesting (and expensive) method.
snakeoil again. it wouldnt work. there are many programs out there that will
just read raw-CD data from the drive...and spit out an ISO at the other end.
It could probably prevent the 'schoolground' stuff..people using their
freebie copies of WinOnCD, Adaptecs EasyCD etc that come with
CDWriters...but people using BurnIt, Nero, MakeCD etc would probably see no
problems
> It is possible to overcome the "casual copier" but impossible to
> prevent the big boys with their k00l scRipTz + hAcKz.
preventing the 'casual copier' is a big step to overcoming large volumes of
piracy. in 'A500 times' a game that couldnt be XCopied would have larger sales
alan
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