[Gllug] Copy Protection

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 24 Feb North London John wrote:
> Following on from the thread about the ADF cd being "protected", a 
> friend of mine has tried it on her Mac (OS 9 I think) & she says it 
> plays/copies. I'm going to try and borrow it and try it out on OS X & 
> Linux (Mandrake PPC 8.2 - it works! (Almost)).
> 
> Is there any reason for such cds working on Macs but not Windows and/or 
> x86 architecture?

AIUI it's the cdrom drive that makes the difference, not the OS.  I got
a broken cd the other day, and just went round all the machines in the
office till I found one that would copy it.  Took about 6 attempts.

doug.

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