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Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

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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.
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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

Well, there is no way that you can stop people using print-screen as far as I know, however I know of this one website where you can't copy the sprites this guy made, however I can't find it any more. So at least, it is possible, s'all I'm saying.
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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

No, it's not possible.
If you can read the files from the CD you can then write them somewhere else...

Same with websites. If you can see the graphic you already have a copy on your system so the only thing to do is find it (unless the graphic is read from a remote source on the fly using a Java applet or flash thingy but then you could reverse engineer that and read it anyway).
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There must be some software that can do this for me, Does Nero have such facility?
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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

Quote originally posted by jwenting ...
If you can see the graphic you already have a copy on your system so the only thing to do is find it (unless the graphic is read from a remote source on the fly using a Java applet or flash thingy but then you could reverse engineer that and read it anyway).
Ah. I hadn't thought of that, thanks jwenting.
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There must be some software that can do this for me, Does Nero have such facility?
Nope, either they can read it, or they can't, period.
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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

Quote originally posted by cancer10 ...
There must be some software that can do this for me, Does Nero have such facility?
You CAN make a CD which cannot (or be much harder to, to be more realistic) be copied. Nero AFAIK cannot do it, you need specialised software (and possibly specialised hardware as well).

You can NOT prevent individual files from being taken from your CD and used elsewhere.
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Hello,

I thought I saw something about copy-inhibit settings on a server share. Part of the file attibutes that Windows uses. But that would not help having the media in front of you on your local machine.

People will find a way to copy things, even if they are not supposed to.

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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

There's isn't a cd out there that's impossible to copy. You don't need any special kind of software, actually there's a program out there called "Alcohol 120%" that can copy any protected cd, even the strongest protection to date.

I guess you could look into apply some of these copy protection schemes to your cd..Some of them are "SecurRom", "SafeDisc", and many more. It won't protect everything from invidivually copied onto the harddrive, but it will protect the most important files. But again, there are programs out there that can easily break these protection schemes.
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Re: Making a COPY PROTECTED CD...

yes Christian, you can set a file to inhibit copying but that will deter only the casual copier.

If I create an application that reads in the file and then writes out the data to another file I have effectively a copy yet I never issued a copy command to the operating system.
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