Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

I have some files (my work) in a CD which i don't want anyone to copy to their system. They can read the contents of the CD but cannot copy to their hard disk. I mean i want to make a COPY PROTECTED CD.

Please help me.

Any suggestion will be apprecible.

[Derek‽]

What kinds of things would be included?

[MOMOTRON [dead.]]

I searched download.com and this program looked to be the best.

www.download.com/SDProtector/3000-2216_4-10388959.html?tag=lst-0-4

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

kajiaisu said:

What kinds of things would be included?

.exe files, .txt files, .doc files, and whatnot

[dura cell]

cancer10in said:

I have some files (my work) in a CD which i don't want anyone to copy to their system. They can read the contents of the CD but cannot copy to their hard disk. I mean i want to make a COPY PROTECTED CD.

Please help me.

Any suggestion will be apprecible.

Also think about instead of burning the disk, since there will be .txt and all that stuff, and it's not going to be an install disk, that people might copy/paste on their computer?

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

thatroll2 said:

I searched download.com and this program looked to be the best.

www.download.com/SDProtector/3000-2216_4-10388959.html?tag=lst-0-4

It can only make files trial versions, Its not wot I wanted

[Maligogo]

You do realize that Copy Protection can be broken just like that? All you have to do is mount it to a virtual drive with Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools and your copy protection is no more. It's rarely really worth going through the trouble, unless you know the people who might copy it are computer illiterate.

Just my 2 cents

[MarvinRules]

There is no way to make a copyprotected Data CD. Games rely on planted courrupted data at specfec locations on the CD. When run the game checks for for these "Planted" sectors. If the sectors are not here, then the game will not run.

HOWEVER the data can still be copied off of the CD.

So what you are wanting to do is not possible. There is no way for the computer to tell the difference between copying files off of the disk, or opening the files directly from the disk.

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

^ Thats disappointing

[MarvinRules]

cancer10in said:

^ Thats disappointing

The movie industry has been trying to keep their DVD's from being copied. But every time they come up with a new encryption, someone cracks it. Sony spend nearly a year on their latest encryption scheme, and someone cracked it in 72 hours.

So even if it was possible, if someone wanted a copy of your data, they could get it.

[kapt]

marvinrules said:

cancer10in said:

^ Thats disappointing

The movie industry has been trying to keep their DVD's from being copied. But every time they come up with a new encryption, someone cracks it. Sony spend nearly a year on their latest encryption scheme, and someone cracked it in 72 hours.

So even if it was possible, if someone wanted a copy of your data, they could get it.

72 hours? Sounds like the California Drivers License/ID issue. They spent countless hours and about the same ammount of money to make an ID that no one could counterfeit. Lasted one day

Kapt~`'-

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

I found these links by googling

www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=72&id=340
www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_3.shtml#Index

Will these software be any good?

[Matej]

Starforce 4 protection for games hasn't been cracked yet properly. If you want to buy that technology, you'll have your files protected for a few more days.

Seriously though, Starforce protection is probably the best one out there. Starforce 3 protects Toca Race Driver 2 and I haven't seen it PROPERLY cracked yet (meaning that it works good).
Starforce 4 protects GTA: San Andreas for PC and it was half cracked. It doesnt work fully.

[MarvinRules]

captkozmo said:

marvinrules said:

The movie industry has been trying to keep their DVD's from being copied. But every time they come up with a new encryption, someone cracks it. Sony spend nearly a year on their latest encryption scheme, and someone cracked it in 72 hours.

So even if it was possible, if someone wanted a copy of your data, they could get it.

72 hours? Sounds like the California Drivers License/ID issue. They spent countless hours and about the same ammount of money to make an ID that no one could counterfeit. Lasted one day

Kapt~`'-

3 days after Sony's scheme was cracked, the programmer that cracked it was forced to shut down his site, turn all copies of the source code of his app, and is not allowed to even discuss the programming teniques that he used for anyone.

[Derek‽]

SHOUVIK, I think you'll be safe with one of those. No offense, but you're still a pretty small operation. I don't think anyone will be trying to crack anything for awhile.