Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:08:02PM +0100, Kurt Petersen wrote:
My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected
DVDs.
Anybody knows how to do that with Linux?
Seeing as how its called copy-protection, is this something that you
want to do? Even if it is possible, you must ask yourself if it is
right. Check your license agreement. If it says that you only have the
right to the one game on the one media, then it would be illegal for you
to make a copy. Do you want to teach your daughter that it is OK to
break the law? After all, she agreed to the license agreement the first
time she played the game. If she didn't think the license was
satisfactory, she should have not played it. If she is too young to
understand this, then the burden falls to you.
OTOH, if you believe that the copy protection is to prevent sharing of
games and should not apply to backups, then go ahead and make this
distinction.
I've never even seen a game on DVD (my last computer games came on
floppy except for Harpoon that came on a CD).
Doug.
Doug,
AFAIK (<<--see the disclaimer?) in the USA, you are allowed to make
personal copies of media you own for your own use (not to install on
multiple machines). This has been upheld time and time again in the
courts. You can make all the copies of that other OS you want. This is
not illegal. You may not install that OS on more then one machine at a
time. And if you sell/give it away (also legal despite EULA saying the
opposite) you may never use the existing copies you made, nor may you
give those copies to another. This is called "Fair Use". Please
correct me if I am wrong.
Many licenses you "agree" to tell you you can not do these things
(notably, Windows used to state you could not sell the copy you had, if
you dumped your box, you could not include the OS) however, the courts
have ruled this is right and fair for a user to do. Now, if you want to
crack that copy protection, that is a different matter and that is
illegal.
How would one make a bit copy of a CD using dd? dd if=/dev/whatever
of=/file/name.iso ?
I never tried to dd a CD.
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Damon L. Chesser
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