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Unread 02-27-2003, 12:06 PM   #8
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You can't just "get" safedisk - it's more of a technology that you license to use than a product. And it only works for data CD's (I've only ever seen it on games, though it would theoretically work on any software product that requires the CD be in the drive while the software is running)

You should have said you wanted Audio copy protection earlier, I think everyone has been assuming you wanted to protect some software. Knowing that, I can say you have about no chance at all of stopping any copying. The big music companies still haven't found a way to stop CD copying yet (there are a few copy-protection methods out, all of them have simple work-arounds), so the average user is pretty much out-of-luck.

If you don't mind having to play the CD from computer only, you can look into some of the DRM technologies for digitally signing compressed audio. I know WMA9 has DRM built-in, though I don't know if it's available for regular users without buying some extra licences of some sort. But something like this is the only way you're going to prevent perfect digital copies, and it still doesn't prevent someone making an analog copy of it.
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