Record carrier with protective linking areas

摘要

The invention relates to a record carrier intended to store data. According to the invention, data are intended to be stored in accordance with a standard for creating physical data clusters separated by protective linking areas, said protective linking areas being of different size from linking areas of a writable record carrier intended to store said physical data clusters locked to a pre-recorded wobbled groove in which linking areas are used. The invention serves to prevent bit-by-bit copying of said record carrier onto said writable record carrier. The invention can also serve to control the compatibility of different standards of writable record carrier. Application: Optical storage.