On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 01:51, LeVA wrote: <SNIP> > But be aware! Recent game dvds and cds have several protections. This means > that you can not play with your backup discs. You must the original disc > inserted, or else the game will refuse to start. > If dd has not been altered as per DMCA how then can these protections persist when dd makes a perfect binary copy of the media? Does it matter what type of blank media you buy? BTW what is all this +R -R etc etc mean anyway. I want to backup the Suse DVD which are dual layer and the usual data which I can do easily on CDRW. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.