A while ago the Macrovision company announced a new version of their
well known SafeDisc copy-protection, v3.1. This latest version promised to
protect "against hacking and unauthorised copying of protected titles"
by adding some unique new features to the copy-protection.
A digital signature, for instance,
should prevent any optical drive from copying a disc that is protected
with SafeDisc v3.1. However, as dr--evil reports via our forum, it seems that the protection can quite easily be beaten
when the proper hardware is used:
"SAFEDISC" printed on the inner ring of the quote: Alcohol 120% Read Speed Max Read Subchannel Data (thought it couldn't hurt) Ignore Read Errors I disabled skip error blocks to make the reader a little slower over the bad sectors. I then burnt the image at Max speed and disabled Bypass EFM error as the Plexwriter Premium can do them OK. The result is a working 1:1 copy. However it would seem that it is the bypass EFM error which causes the problem. I tried the same thing in my Laptop drive which requires the bypass setting and it didn't work. So it looks like SD3 can be copied but only with certain compatible hardware and the bypass feature no longer works. |
note that we have recently added a new area to our forum, the Copy
Protection Forum where users can report which game titles are protected and
with which protection and version. You are of course welcome to contribute to
this forum but please read the sticky threads first for more
information.
Source: Club CD Freaks
