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[fingernailX]

As for audio, if it can be played on a computer, Total Recorder can copy it to wav. As for video, if it can be played on a computer Camtasia can screen capture it. I use Total Recorder all the time to capture streaming audio and burn to audio CD. Any RealAudio stream at 32k or over sounds pretty darn good. I have also used to copy CD and DVD audio. The only down side is 1X real time unlike 24X CD ripping and occasionally the recording fails to "shut off" autmatically and you have to trim the resulting wav. For anyone with any concerns about digitally protected audio I can't give any higher recommendation than Total Recorder. (FYI - Its available somewhere in Spain - wink wink nudge nudge)

[ember]

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On 2001-09-24 06:45:45, fingernailX wrote:
As for audio, if it can be played on a computer, Total Recorder can copy it to wav. As for video, if it can be played on a computer Camtasia can screen capture it. I use Total Recorder all the time to capture streaming audio and burn to audio CD.
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I think Branroyal's aim is to reduce pure CD-rom to CD-R counterfeiting. But you are right- there will always be ways to rip - even those CDs that aren't playable on CD-ROM. I was always lead to believe it was the ripping and distribution of these tracks(in mp3 format) that was hurting the music biz.

[TIbrO]

I believe Branroyal. I mean, I think I know what he means. The way that the CD is authored is not copyable by normal consumer level CD Writer Drives... Meaning you cannot put the CD in your DVDROM drive, put a CDR in your CD Burner, and load up a burning program, and say CD COPY.

Kinda like Playstation games. But the only reason CDR Playstation games dont' work is because the console was made to specifically check for the disc's authenticity. That's why you have to modify it with a chip or use the boot disc. So there are effective ways of protection that are much more inconvenient to work around, like in Playstation.

You probably can extract the audio seperately, then the video content seperately, and then whatever else the disc may have on it seperately. So as to make it real annoying to even try to pirate one of these things... because it would probably take you very long to extract each section of data. And once it was all ripped off the source CD, you probably cannot write it back to another CDR and make it work like the original CS2 CD thing... You might have to burn a seperate CDR for each of the types of content. Atleast this is what I think he's saying... correct me if I am wrong, Bran. You really need to post a link to a site with all of the info, or atleast tell us all. I am very curious about this new format.

[TIbrO]

Another thing... to whoever asked why would he be here if he was a trillionare... Why wouldn't he be here? If I came here all the time, and was developing a new technology that had the possibility of getting bought out by some huge company for lots of money, that wouldn't stop me from coming to the good old VCDHELP site. In fact, I would donate even more money to the site after I was paid!

[d4n13l]

Bear in mind that whatever can be engineered, can be reverse engineered.

[CzX]

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On 2001-09-24 11:06:14, d4n13l wrote:
Bear in mind that whatever can be engineered, can be reverse engineered.
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Damn straight.

I still do see what would keep me from loading the cd into my computer and then using TotalRecorder or Blaze Audio to record it. Sure it would take awhile. Not only that, but yeah I could just use SnagIt to capture the video content. Duh. Anyone who has a brain could've figured that out. Once one of these so called CS2 discs are released...that's when we'll see how hard it is to crack. This is also VCD not DVD. DVD was supposed to be like some super encrypted source, but all it took was someone to write a program to crack it---and VCD, which I truly doubt, has ANY encryption at all. Just take a look at China and the Phillipines--the whole market over there is about 80-90 percent piracy.

[Branroyal]

TIbrO wrote:
"You probably can extract the audio seperately, then the video content seperately, and then whatever else the disc may have on it seperately. So as to make it real annoying to even try to pirate one of these things... because it would probably take you very long to extract each section of data. And once it was all ripped off the source CD, you probably cannot write it back to another CDR and make it work like the original CS2 CD thing... You might have to burn a seperate CDR for each of the types of content. "

[Branroyal]

TIbrO wrote:
I would donate even more money to the site after I was paid!


yes sir, once every thing is done i do intend to greatly support my favorate home paged site

[TIbrO]

Hehe...