On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:34:41 -0600 Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:24 pm, Grendel wrote: | > On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Jeff Smelser uttered the following immortal | > words, | > | > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/whatever/whatever.iso | > | > Somehow this command doesnt work for certain game cd's. One result | > is that the cd drive tried endlessly to read data at a sector and | > then gives up saying it is bad. I guess that this must be due to | > safe disc or some other protection. The cd isnt bad it works fine. | | I was assuming legal cd's.. Not pirating things.. You need special cd | rippers for that stuff. (from what I hear)
In many countries you have the legal right to make a backup copy of CDs, so dd'ing game CDs isn't necessarily illegitemate. It's a shame that certain dishonest manufacturers ship 'CDs' that are intentionally broken and not specification-compliant. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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