Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008

>> >> My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected
>> >> DVDs.
>> >>
>> >> Anybody knows how to do that with Linux?
>
>   Have a look here:
>   'Simple CD-ROM & ISO image cookbook.' -->
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/273[]
>   It _is_ as simple as `dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/mycd.iso` but there are
>   some other neat cd tricks listed in the article.

Legal or not aside, the answer is unfortunately NO — not under Linux.

Whether dd, or cat or other neat tricks listed in the article, they are just not built to circumvent the copy protection, but become the perfect victim of it. I.e., copy protections like weak sectors, SecuROM *new*, SecuROM 4.8x, LaserLock and SafeDisc, they are just built to not allow disk to be read correctly, even with rawread (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm) or dd who "claim" to read disks *bit by bit*. Ref:

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/video/dvdvcd/dv10-CDDVDCopyProtection/

xpt