[CS-FSLUG] Microsoft CDs

[Fred A. Miller]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 6:48 am, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:20 -0600, Nathan T. wrote:
> > Quite a long time ago I got Age of Empires II and the expansion to
> > that game, the game is published by Microsoft and has one very
> > crippling bug I've come across far too many times, but aside from that
> > it's fun.
> >
> > I've encountered a dilema with the game: the CD is wearing out. The
> > disk does in fact it does have a few good scratches on it but it still
> > reads fine when browsing the disk and installing or playing the game.
> > I tried to burn a backup CD and that is when the trouble started,
> > neither my desktop using Nero or K3B with my CD and DVD burner can
> > copy the disk, the same happens with my Toshiba laptop.
>
> I'm guessing copyright protection.  Leave it to MS.  You'll have to do
> some googling regarding getting around such nonsense.  Microsoft doesn't
> believe in software ownership so the less you own of their product the
> more they like it.  Backup?  A CD?  Who would want to do that?  CDs last
> forever, right?  <wink, wink>

I just happend to remember that I've been able to copy for several people 
their games in the past, when MickySoft software wouldn't by using XCDRoast.

Fred

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