While it seems to be a slow news day I thought it was nice to bring back an old 'section' of CD Freaks that we called 'Other stuff ™'. In this section we posted all kinds of short news in our old lay-out.
Today we have the following two stories
From our Forum.
Hey there...
I recently purchased CloneCD over ebay and was quite shocked when I received the package...I think the guy I bought it from is just burning copies of it.
First off, the CD he sent me wouldnt load in my CD-ROM drive...I had to do it in my burner, and 2nd, the top of the cd was clearly pasted with a label containing the black back ground and sheep logo of CloneCD. It was clearly low quality; it had been printed out of a low-grade deskjet printer. Surely this is just some dude making money off another company's hard work?
Is there any way I can alert the company about this? Will Elaborate Bytes (makers of CloneCD) investigate cases such as this? Surely they care? I want that bastard to pay!
I mean, I support the right of us to be able to make back-ups of our games, but going so low as turning around and SELLING them for major profit is a load of crap.
And also another story by DanDaMan1487 that had some troubles explaining sales man the 'buzz' words we use here everyday.
Last weekend I went to Fry's Electronics with my dad to buy a 24x10x40 writer that was on sale (Que! writer).
When we went there, I asked the representatives about what engine it uses from what company and they said "All kinds of engines." Well, I couldn't get any info about that.
Then I asked them about what writing modes it supports and they look at the box, hesitate for a moment, and reply in a dumbfounded way, "CD-R and CD-RW."
I am trying to get them to let me know if it copies protected CD's without giving away that I pirate software. So I ask them if it can write uncorrected data and subchannels. Now there's about 6 people trying to answer my questions and not a single arsehole knows what they're or I'm talking about. They say, "You need to get one of the oldest writers to write uncorrected CDs"
I am frustrated so I give them the whole loaf: "Can it copy SafeDisc 2 protected CD's?" I'm pretty sure they dont know but they start by replying "We're not allowed to legally tell you that information." Of course, they have no clue. Then they start saying "You can use cracks. You can find them at astalavista.box.sk" and other stuff which I'm sure is illegal.
So they don't want to tell me what it can backup, but they are ready to give away crack sites. These people aren't qualified to work there!
I'm pretty sure that they were intimidated since a 14-year-old boy (me) knew more than any of them put together.
So I took the writer home. It supports RAW-DAO and all protections BUT it doesn't support SafeDisc 2 (I have to use AWS).
It has "JUSTLINK" feature. I want to know what engine this writer runs on so if anybody can tell me what "JUSTLINK" is usually contained in, I would be thankful.
I am pretty sure it is a rebadged "Ricoh"
Just thought this might be two intresting stories to read as not everyone visits our forum and because they are good reads.
Source: CD Freaks Forum
