Copying disks is usually done with the following intentions:

Getting a full copy of materials from a CD or DVD on your hard drive for faster and more convenient access to them

Creating a copy of materials in case of loss of the original medium

Creating a copy for the purpose of illegal distribution: free on the Internet (see computer piracy ), or for money on unofficial disks.

Cloning

Preparing for DVD Cloning in Nero Express

Disk cloning is the creation of an exact copy of the original disk. Clone discs should be using special programs such as Nero . During cloning, an exact copy of the disk is created in two stages: first, a copy of the source disk is created on the hard disk of the computer, and then this copy is written to a blank disk. This method is suitable for discs of any kind - and Audio-CD / VCD, and DVD-Video / Audio, and discs with computer games. For the CD and DVD Duplication Services in NSW this is important.

To carry out the cloning process, you need to have enough space on the hard disk to hold a temporary copy of the image of a CD or DVD, intended for recording on another disc: up to 700 MB for a CD and up to 9 GB for a DVD.

Copying audio from a CD to a hard disk

There are various ways to copy audio from a CD to a computer’s hard drive. Many players, including Windows Media Player, are capable of making low-quality copies in data loss formats ( mp3 , wma ). However, with the help of special programs, for example, EAC , you can create a full copy of a CD in a format without data loss .

If the copy is not intended for playback on a computer, it is possible to create a CD image - this process is similar to cloning, but without writing the image to a blank disc.

Copy DVD-Video to your hard drive

Using the file manager, you need to open the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD-ROM and copy the files from there to the hard drive. Subsequently, these files can be written to another DVD using the program for burning DVD-Video discs, and you can also use the converter software to transfer the vob files from the DVD to a more convenient format for playing on a computer without a DVD-ROM ( avi , mkv ) .

Copy DVD Using DVD Decrypter

As with the CD, if the resulting copy is not intended to be played on a computer, you can create an image that can later be burned to a blank DVD.

Copy protection

To protect against copying CDs and DVDs, there are various measures that violate human rights to one degree or another. For example, Copy Control protection system, which was used before 2006, did not allow reading CD-ROMs on computer drives. Sony's XCP technology used in 2005 without the user's knowledge installed a hidden program in Windows that prohibits copying of protected disks.

There are programs that can circumvent disk copying prohibitions. For example, DVD Decrypter creates copy-protected DVD images.

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