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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