Protecting Audio CD?
hi is there a way in which you can protect and audio cd so that people with a standard knowledge of burners or computers cant copy them? because i work for a local club and they want to protect there remix releases but ill share them on here wit ya all
You can put dummy tracks on that are less than 4 seconds in length, you can also modify the TOC to make the disc appear longer in length than what it actually is.
At the end of the day though, any halfwit with a LiteOn burner and a copy of either Alcohol or CloneCD can make a 1:1 copy without any problems at all.
There are other means of protection available (quite costly though), but all the user has to do is connect a CD player to their soundcard and record the disc in real time and that is the end of any protection that may or may not have once existed.
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Re: Protecting Audio CD?
dont u think if there was a way, that one of the big record companies would be using it?Originally posted by crack_it
hi is there a way in which you can protect and audio cd so that people with a standard knowledge of burners or computers cant copy them? because i work for a local club and they want to protect there remix releases but ill share them on here wit ya all
they have tried various things like crashing ppls pcs n shit when the disc is put in the drive or making the encoding very difficult for burners to see, but they clearly havent been very successful.
i think ur pretty much screwed m8. if it can be heard, it can be pirated.
found 2 good ones on Here
CloneAudioProtector
Easy Audio Lock
give one 2 my m8 he couldnt burn it niver cud i
Last edited by crack_it; 6th August 2003 at 08:31 PM.
Seriously, send me a copy of the CD with your protection applied and i'll send you a disk with the tracks as mp3 files using nothing more complex than a CD player and a CD-R recorder.
The protection used on CD's is next to useless. It has caused more harm than good with Sony, BMG et al having to press albums with and without Cactus Copy protection so as to allow the CD's to play in any machine. If a player couldn;t play the album, Sony would replace it with a copy-protection free version, defeating the whole point in the first place.
The latest Kings of Leon album has Cactus Protection and a copy was on the net the day of release.
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Well I've just copied a disc that I "protected" with Clone Audio Protector and it copied without a hitch.
Used a Toshiba SD-R6012 as the read/write device and it copied with both Alcohol & CloneCD. Admittedly it did struggle slightly when it encountered the actual protection that was applied, but it built a perfect image none the less.
Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
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