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I was using clonecd to copy my software. The reason behind it was simple - I loved 3do games and you needed to have the primary CD (safedisc) in your drive all the time to play.
result: My dvd-rom drive is finished, totally ruined I had to replace it, my cd unreadable (I literally never took it out of the drive!) and that makes two of the same cd, then I went and became a cloncd person.
Cloned CD's do not work as well or last anywhere nearly as long as the originals, but when 3do went under I was happy that at least my heroes IV original cd was still working, too bad the others aren't.
I OWN at least 20 games (counted them just now bought, played and sold much more, I destry all copys every couple years (who wants to play a 256 color game anymore) and have thousands of $ of software, and copy protection sucks
The best protection is the words in the manuals one, I love that though I regret saying that a bit now since discovery software (amiga people) used it and I cannot ever play my rocket rangers anymore, with special print these manuals cannot be xeroxed, readme files can be made but DYNAMIC manuals like PDF's designed for specific releases work and the ocassional pestering is livable.
OKAY so now how do i make a copy of my safedisc 4 middle earth, my personal policy is no copy no play, sell - before it goes bad.
By the way software support and value has gone down the tubes for all software, if ever there was justification for pirating NOW is it!, A short while ago I bought a product that was less then a beta from a store, and it crippled my system no less, and Civ IV from atari was one step shy of crippleware as well.
(duf)
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