Phantasm66
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Great article here at Tom's Hardware on the perils of breaking copy protection - erm, I mean, making a legitimate backup of your own CDs... hm... hmm.... [clear throat].....
Mysteries Of The CDRW and Back Ups Revealed
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020617/index.html
It seems that drives by Lite On, which I mentioned in another post as having great potential to be "overclocked", for want of a better word ( https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2169&highlight=hot+rod ) also comes across as great drives (for the ones tested) for hmm.... hmm.. "making backups" as well.....
Read on for a really good article!
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020617/index.html
Mysteries Of The CDRW and Back Ups Revealed
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020617/index.html
What continues to amaze us is the extent to which each side will go to find new ways to defeat the other. One unintended result of these more advanced protection schemes is that they sometimes create compatibility problems for CD-ROM/ DVD-ROM drives that don't strictly adhere to the industry standards. In some cases, if your CD-ROM/ DVD-ROM drive is having difficulty reading a certain copy-protected title, you may have to go to the extreme of "flashing" the firmware in your reader to get that title to function correctly. (Provided, of course, that your drive manufacturer is aware of the compatibility problem and has addressed it through an available firmware upgrade, which isn't always the case.) Don't look for the software publishers to lend a sympathetic ear, either, as most of them believe that they have done as much as they can to make their title compatible with the widest variety of CD-ROM/ DVD-ROM drives.
With the discovery of Napster and Napster-like "peer-to-peer" file transferring programs, now even the audio CD companies are getting into the copy-protection act with the introduction of schemes that are making it more difficult to back up audio CDs. Again, these protection schemes have created compatibility problems for audio CD players that don't strictly adhere to the established standards. This has caused headaches for users wanting to make "mix" discs of their favorite songs, or back up copies of audio CDs they already own, to listen to in their car or portable player, for example. It is understandable that recording companies want to control audio CD copying to prevent illegal redistribution, but users are accustomed to fairly broad fair use rights for music that they have purchased. Many record companies felt "safe" when they only had to deal with copying to analog tapes, but the new technology which provides the ability to create perfect, bit-for-bit digital copies has frightened the bejeesus out of the recording companies. Recently released industry statistics indicate that the purchase of CD recordings has dramatically declined, while sales of blank CDRs and accompanying equipment have mushroomed.
It seems that drives by Lite On, which I mentioned in another post as having great potential to be "overclocked", for want of a better word ( https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2169&highlight=hot+rod ) also comes across as great drives (for the ones tested) for hmm.... hmm.. "making backups" as well.....
Lite On has been racking up the awards as of late, and with the performance of the LTR-24102B, we can understand why. This drive does pretty much everything right. It is reliable and worked well in our testing......Lite On has produced a winning drive with excellent performance. The drive was solid, and performed above what we could have expected. It is available for a reasonable price, but, of course, you might be able to get some of the LTR-24102B's faster cousins that can do the same thing for just a tad more money. Again, you will want to keep your eye on these guys, as they are definetely on the right track in the customer satisfaction department.
Read on for a really good article!
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020617/index.html