copying copy protected cd's
 

hi

I want to read copy protected cd's in linux, but my cd-rom drives just don't read the cd
Is there some software i can use to copy them?

thx

Re: copying copy protected cd's
 

What kind of cd's are these? Are they music cd's? They are copy protected for a reason, what are your intentions?

it are audio cd's yes (CDDA)

I just want to make a backup on hard drive (in FLAC audio)

But when i put the cd in the cd-rom drive, the drive goes like hell and nothing reads
So you can't even play the music or read it

the box says "copy controlled"

So there is no software who can read it?

Probably not. Try to find the type of encryption the cd's use and use that as your search criteria. We're useless though without any additional information. You may have to rip the cd to back it up, have you tried any ripper like program like grip yet?

yes

but like i told, the cd-rom tried to read it but goes over and over again (led goes on and off) and no data is read

hi

how can i find the kind of encryption??
I'm still a newbie to linux and don't know anything about that

Remember one thing, cd's are not data files, so if your system is trying to mount it, it can't. You have to use a program to read/play from the cd, like xmms or grip would do such things.

i used grip, it can't read it ...

any idea?

Well, it's copy protected. Without knowing the encryption and if it's every been cracked, your not going to be able to use it to back up, etc. And no, I don't know how to find out the type, I own 0 copy protected cd's.

Google is your friend in this case. ;)

Nero and Windows Media Player
 

I'm unfamiliar with the format you want to back them up as. Get Wine and see if you can port over an older version of Windows Media Player or Nero and get it to work that way. Newer versions of Windows Media Player won't let you run them in Linux. I know I can use Nero to make copies of copyrighted CDs. Fairly new to Linux myself, only been using since June.(sounds like I'm on a drug, lol) Hope this helps.

I vaguely remember something to do with writing squiggly black lines with a Sharpie along either the innor outer edge. I don't know whether those news reports were really serious, but I hope it goes without saying that you can accidentally render a CD completely unreadable by drawing on it with a Sharpie...

Well I think you are in the wrong forum. Cracking CD copy protections is nothing linux specific really. Google for it, I just did and I found some pages. I'm not posting them here though as this site probably has to follow that stupid dmca thingy.
Learn a lesson and don't buy these cd:s in the future (actually they are not cd:s as they violate the specs). Besides not being able to play them on a computer (or at least, not easily), the quality will be worse on ALL players due to the invalidation of the error correction information. Same goes of course for ripping..

It IS Linux-specific though; as in, how does one listen to copy-protected CDs on Linux, or how does one rip copy-protected CDs to MP3 for use on the PC or on an MP3 player?

It is absolutely topical to Linux and the user here is asking the question in the frame of Linux/*nix usability.

indeed, exactly what i mean: how can you make backups in linux of protected cd's ;)

I still didn't figure it out :cry:

make an iso?

but i can't make an iso because my cd-rom can't even read or mount the cd ...

you don't need to mount the cd to make an iso. It is an IMAGE, it is and AUDIO CD. If you can not read it at all, then the CD-ROM might be bad or something.

hi

but the fact that i can't read it at all, is just the copy protection (on the box there is a label with warning that you can't read it in normal CD-rom drives)
So my question is just how i can crack that copy protection

If the label on the box says 'you can't read it in normal CD-rom drives' what do you expect. No OS will be able to access it.

You'll have to find a non-normal CD-rom drive that can read it.

You have to do some work yourself. If you search at Google with the name of your CD and some proper search words you will get a clue what protection is used. A question as general as yours cannot get a right answer. :tisk: There are different copy protections out there. It's like saying "I'm sick, so please how can I get healthy again?"

I think it is actually possible to PLAY AND RIP it in Windows.

I tried a copy protected CD in Windows a while ago, and when inserted, it installed a new media player (!) that played the CD (of course Windows only). I was actually able to rip the CD with Windows Media Player, but not with some other program.

Copy protection is crap. It locks people into one OS.

hi

indeed its crap, the thing you told is exactly what happend with my cd too (after i tried in it windows now)!
It installs a new (windows only) player