|  | Posted by Grinder on 05/20/07 04:38 
Marv Soloff wrote:> Grinder wrote:
 >> Marv Soloff wrote:
 >>
 >>> Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> "Marv Soloff" <msoloff@verizon.net> wrote in message
 >>>> news:CYJ3i.4739$qp5.1948@trnddc03...
 >>>>
 >>>>> evenlater@earthlink.net wrote:
 >>>>> Get a copy of the German DEFA Production of "Turandot". Study how
 >>>>> they copy protected this disk.
 >>>>> Every ripping program I tried on this sucker indicated "there was
 >>>>> no disk in the drive"  Drove me
 >>>>> nuts.
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>> Did AnyDVD fail?
 >>>>
 >>>> AnyDVD in combination with a normal DVD copier such as NERO is
 >>>> surely the obvious way to copy protected DVDs. It does cost $40 though.
 >>>>
 >>> Yep. Any DVD, DVDEcrypter, FabDVD (latest).  The DEFA disk plays fine
 >>> in a player, but the rip programs cannot find it on the computer. How
 >>> this is done, I don't know.  Finally, I had to feed the DVD output to
 >>> a high quality VCR and copied the damn thing.
 >>
 >>
 >> Is there any chance the disc has software on it that was
 >> surreptitiously installed?  eg, Do you have autorun disabled on your
 >> computer?
 >
 > I don't know. Interesting idea though, I'll look. Something like a
 > 'rootkit'?
 
 Possibly.  I know that there used to a cdaudio protection scheme that
 would actually replace some of the system's device drivers.  I once
 abruptly lost the ability to burn DVDs on my system after watching a
 couple of rented DVDs.  (Boiler Room and some other title I cannot now
 recall.)  A system restore to a point just before watching those two
 movies fixed my problem.
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