CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection Against Unsanctioned CD Copying (with source code)

Aimed at shareware and commercial software programmers, as well as users interested in CD protection, this book will help readers defeat hackers and crackers who try to copy CDs without authorization.

A manual on protecting CDs against illegal copying, this book shows how crackers copy CDs using various access methods. The methods covered include the CDFS driver, cooked mode, SPTI, ASPI, the SCSI port, and the MSCDEX driver. Explained is how to prevent cracker break-ins using protections based on nonstandard CD formats such as the CD driver and weak CD sectors. Information on CD functioning fundamentals and tips related to CD protection in a format free of math and assembling-such as data formats, the scrambler, the Reed-Solomon coder/encoder, the CIRC coder/encoder, and a weak-sectors generator-are also provided. The main program interfaces, which provide direct control via peripheral devices on the application level in UNIX, Novell, and Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, are considered, as is how to read and write RAW sectors.

The book also discusses practically all commercial CD protection packets available today. It lists their implementation errors, “thanks” to which the copying of protected discs is still possible. The author also suggests several protection mechanisms that take into account his own bitter experience and that of his friends and colleagues. These protection mechanisms cannot be copied using any of the copiers that exist today.

While reading this book, you will learn how to invalidate the disc format in order to make it readable (that is, playable) on most CD-ROM drives, but practically impossible for any copier to copy, and how to bind to the physical disc structure so that copiers are unable either to reproduce or imitate it. You’ll also learn about the physical and technical limitations of low-end recorders and how to use these to achieve your goals.

Finally, the book explains how to create a protected CD copier on your own, making the replication of protected discs a much easier task.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - CD Organization
Chapter 02 - Power of Reed-Solomon Codes
Chapter 03 - Practical Advice on Urgent System Recovery
Chapter 04 - Interfaces for Interaction with the Hardware
Chapter 05 - Methods of Revealing Protection Mechanisms
Chapter 06 - Anti-Copying Mechanisms
Chapter 07 - Protection Mechanisms for Preventing Playback in CD-ROM
Chapter 08 - Protection against File-by-File Disc Copying
Chapter 09 - Protection Mechanisms Based on Binding to Storage Media
Chapter 10 - Data Recovery from CDs

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