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Israeli firm unveils the 'copy-proof' CD

After reading this I begin to wonder. What if the Record Companies do find a way to deny us our 'fair use' rights to make backups of our music CDs ?

Is DAE the only way ? Perhaps with a reasonable CD Player and Stereo Amp with SPDIF/Optical MD or Aux-out and a soundcard with matching input quite good copies could be achieved.

Has anyone tried this and compared the result with DAE ?

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The only way to make copy protection is to break the cd.

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Is DAE the only way ? Perhaps with a reasonable CD Player and Stereo Amp with SPDIF/Optical MD or Aux-out and a soundcard with matching input quite good copies could be achieved.

Has anyone tried this and compared the result with DAE ?

I have used this method for copy protected CDs and damaged CDs and for ripping "hidden" tracks. It works perfectly if your soundcard's digital input does not resample. And, of course, no copy protection can ever prevent this from working.

The disadvantage is that it can only be done in realtime and you have to go in and manually edit the track breaks. Except for not having to edit out the clicks and pops it's almost as much trouble as ripping vinyl.