MS CD-ROM Errors?

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian J. Conway)]

> Does anyone know how to copy one of those funky Microsoft-whatever CD's
> that has copy protection in it?  I have a friend (seriously!) that wants
> to have a copy of his MS-Golf CD at home and at work so he doesn't have
> to carry around the original CD wherever he goes.  In case you were
> wondering, yes he IS a manager!
> Is there some way to do a raw read & raw write that includes this
> protection?

I'm not sure what copy protection is actually involved, but I've never
had a problem ripping a whole CD image using readcd from the cdrecord
package and just burning that image.  I'd suggest the new X-CD-Roast
0.98 rather than commandline, in this case.

Brian J. Conway
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