Optical media protection driver

摘要

A method to protect content within protected data areas on a target optical record carrier against unauthorized reading and/or copying with a computer, comprises the steps of—determining whether a target optical record carrier or a non-target optical record carrier is inserted into a drive of the computer, and—in case a target optical record carrier is inserted into the drive of the computer—modifying read requests to the protected data areas so that no data is read or the read data is useless, and/or—modifying write commands in respect to the data within the protected data areas to a recordable record carrier or other storage so that the written data is useless.

主权项

1. A method for protecting content within protected data areas on a target optical data medium against unauthorized copying with a computer, comprising:
determining whether an optical data medium inserted into a drive of the computer is the target optical data medium or a non-target optical data medium, wherein the target optical data medium is a data medium protected against unauthorized copying with a computer, and when the inserted optical data medium is the target optical data medium, modifying read requests to the protected data areas so that either no data is read or the read data is modified, and/or modifying write commands in respect to the data within the protected data areas to a recordable data medium or other storage so that the written data is modified to be useless, wherein the determining and modifying steps are performed by a driver installed on the computer, and wherein the modifying of read requests and/or write commands is performed only when no authentication of the computer is available.