RE: Copy Protection
Euman,
Well, that's just it. From everything I've read, this CAN'T be done just
with software.
>From what I know, programs are available on the internet that allow you
to copy any disk. It doesn't matter if there are are checksum errors,
hidden data, etc.--every bit written to the original disk is copied to
the new, without any regard for what it means.
As I said, I'm no hardware guru. I get the impression that devising a
new disk format would only the disk from being read by conventional
movements of the disk drive's read/write head. If so, this might work...
although you're now saddled with the need for special software to read
the disk.
Plus, I think committed hackers would be able to unravel the new format
(not that they couldn't also crack the punched-hole disk problem; no
solution is TOTALLY foolproof short of a one-time-pad-encrypted disk
with the key given in person to the appropriate user. And even that only
stops the data from being read, not from being copied.)
Rod Jackson
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