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Originally Posted by Drider_it
i can sum it all up at this.. my dad always told me thus:
Locks are nice son, they do wonders. But do you know what locks are for? Locks keeps honest people out. Thats about it.
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Your father was a very intelligent man. This copy protection will only stop home user who have actually purchased the CD and want to copy it. I will bet my left testicle that ANY (even semi-mainstream) CD which has this type of protection will be on Bit Torrent the same week as the CD's general public release if not earlier. Protection schemes only stop legitimate users from copying data; they have no impact on people who download data except for a good laugh when the torrent hits 100%.
Edit: Well, this protection scheme seems to be 100% effective in protection Charley Pride's "A Tribute to Jim Reeves" recorded in 2001. I think this is akin to developing a powerful new tactic to prevent people from stealing nuclear waste. I shall write "Plz don't steal, K thx" on a piece of 3x5 notecard and staple it to a drum of toxic waste. If I can comeback in a month and the waste is still there, this means that my protection scheme is a perfect success. I can then start to market my scheme to protect houses, businesses and perhaps even top security government buildings.
Double Edit: And Safeaudio is cracked...
"Now you know how it works, you probably will understand that you can just record the audio stream and burn it on a CD. Many people however don't think that is the best solution.
The best way to 'rip' (extract the audio to your HD) an audio CD is the direct way.
Burst Copy Mode
Recently someone reported to our site that there is software that is able to rip SafeAudio protected CD's very easy. Reported is that all software that is able to rip at Burst Copy Mode (In this mode the drive tries to write to the file while we read from the CD so we have a continue data stream) is able to rip SafeAudio protected CD's.
CDFS.vxd
Software that is able to do that, and besides that is always very handy is a modified version of CDFS.vxd. (Download here) Before installing this new windows CD-ROM driver you should think about 2 things:
# It does not work for Windows NT/2K/XP and with all CD-ROM players
# Make sure you have a backup of your original CDFS.vxd file (or just rename the old one to CDFS.old)
You can find the CDFS.vxd file that has to be replaced in the folder:
C:WindowsSystemIOSubSys
If you have succesfully copied the file, you need to restart your computer so the file can be loaded in the OS.
If all went well you can now open your Windows Explorer, and when you have a Audio CD in your drive it will show you all kinds of maps with choices of wav files. You can now pick the file you want and drag it to a folder on your HD ! "
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/48/2
I wonder how much they actually spent to develop this particular scheme. At least this scheme requires a bit more than the rather humerous "hold shift" or "first get a sharpie" methods to break.