I think you'll find it's a copy protection issue.  Most CD's these days are
copy-protected and the methods are getting more sophisticated by the day.
The business of copying CD's has become a whole sub-culture in the computer
world, and you need to be right up with the play to even understand what's
going on.

Your requirement, of wanting to create a backup for your own use, is
perfectly understandable and very common.  Regrettably, in most cases you
will be prevented from doing so.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JMB" Subject: [PCSOFT] Copying a CD-Rom


> My son has a play station and almost all of his games are damaged in
> some way from scratches on the CD-Roms. We just bought him a Spiderman
> game and I thought I could copy it using my Nero software (make a copy
> of the CD) and let him use the copy. That way, if the copy gets damaged
> and doesn't work any more, I'll still have the original to work with.
> However, after I made a copy, it wouldn't work in the game console. (I
> made the copy not on the fly but creating an image to disk and then
> taking the info from the hard drive to the burned CD-R.)
>
> What did I do wrong? Is there a way to copy these games? I am not a
> pirate, I just want to protect my investment.
>
> Jean Bourvic

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