Copying a DVD

[Carl William Spitzer IV]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 01:51, LeVA wrote:
<SNIP>
> But be aware! Recent game dvds and cds have several protections. This means 
> that you can not play with your backup discs. You must the original disc 
> inserted, or else the game will refuse to start.
> 

If dd has not been altered as per DMCA how then can these protections
persist when dd makes a perfect binary copy of the media?

Does it matter what type of blank media you buy?

BTW what is all this +R -R etc etc mean anyway.  I want to backup the
Suse DVD which are dual layer and the usual data which I can do easily
on CDRW.

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