Currently Macrovisions SafeDisc and the protection of Sony called SecuRom are the protections on many CDs. These protections can be painfull to make backups from, but with the right combination of hardware and software, it should not be a problem.
Also the developers of copy protections have discovered this and currently more and more next generation copy protections are entering the market. It is very likely more and more consumers will be confronted with them.
The next generation copy protections are not widely used yet, but they are gaining ground and there are reasons to believe that they will once become mainstream. These new protections make the current widely available copy protections child play, and are much more sopisthicated. They are based on recognizing the physical parameters/structure of a CD-R. Don't fear, altough these protection are better then anything we have seen before, making a backup seems still to be possible. It just requires some more hassle. First we should explain how these new protections seem to work. |
In our article we try to explain the the basics of the technical backgrounds of the protections and we direct you to ways to bypass it. You can read it here. If you want to stay up to date, it's a must read!
Source: CD Freaks.com
