On 3/8/08, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > Damon L. Chesser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hey, Have a look here: 'Simple CD-ROM & ISO image cookbook.' --> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/273 It _is_ as simple as `dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mycd.iso` but there are some other neat cd tricks listed in the article.
cheers, Owen.
