I Yearn to Burn used our newssubmit to tell us that the well know site: Toms Hardware Guide has written an article about backing up protected CDs.
On our site you will find a lot of information regarding CD-RW drives and we think that we can't get around the right of making backups and that's why we post information about making backups of protected CDs. THG seems to be the first major hardware site that gives more information about backing up protected CDs. They however forgot to put up a link to our site
For most frequent CD Freaks visitors the article will not be very intresting to read, because most of the things are already discussed on this site for a long time and the information is a little general, but it's always good to see this discussed by 'general public' websites:
"In order to make back ups of commercial CDs that incorporate copy protection, in most cases you will need special software to do the job. Of course, this is only part of the equation. Depending on which copy protection scheme you are attempting to back up, your CDRW drive will need the correct firmware revision that will support the software you are using. |
Selecting the correct drive isn't as easy as you might think. Most of the software products that are required to make these back up discs have an extensive list of the drives that are compatible and the drives that won't cut it. Also important is the revision of the firmware within the drive, as some drives will only function with certain versions of the firmware. Many people have suspected that perhaps the drive manufacturers are being less than generous with the firmware used with their drives because they don't want to open the potential Pandora's box of problems that may arise if their drives are being used for back ups.
You can read the entire article here and read more about what we already know !
Note: The article also speaks about Tages, I thought it might be intresting to add that the Deamon Tools developer in this thread reports that he has made a copy of it, somehow !
Source: Tomshardware.com
