CD-Cops

CD-Cops is one of the world's leading security systems for protecting CD-ROMs against pirate copying. We protect millions of CDs each year and are market leaders in prestige business applications and in critical areas such as The Middle East.

CD-Cops III is the newest edition for 32-bit Windows EXE files with improved user interface and easy integration with CDR-Cops for CD-R distribution.

Read here about the many special versions of CD-COPS. CD-COPS for 16-bit .exe files and CD-Cops for Linux are separate products.

CD-Cops Features:

	CD-R copy programs and emulators do not copy our CDs.
	100% normal CD production and verification. Philips Yellow book format strictly adhered to.
	In-house: Apply protection, make CD-R gold master and test - at no extra cost.
	"Game-API" option enables special coding deep inside your program. Prevents separation from guard module.
	High security level. Generic hacks are not available on the internet.
	Network version, time-expiry and periodic check of CD available.
	Crypto support for PDF files and other data formats.
	Optional automatic web support and update facility built-in.
	Standard system can work on portables where the CD-drive has been removed.
	Built-in rescue system for fast remote support in case of damaged CDs/defective drives.

CD-Cops recognizes an original CD-ROM and rejects copies: those produced on a CD-R writer, as well as those produced by "professional pirates" on glass masters. Minute differences are measured to establish the CD-ROM’s fingerprint and to ensure that copies are not accepted. This fingerprint is expressed as a code or key number.

CD-Cops is a shell protection which is added to the CD’s main executable. This is the only change necessary. Your usual production procedure remains the same. Any CD-ROM factory can produce protected discs.

Works on WIN95/98/ME, NT, WIN2K, XP(64), Vista(64) and WIN7(64).

You start by producing your gold master CD-R as usual. Then you apply protection to the main executable using the CD-Cops software. A few small changes need to be made to the installation script. You then burn and test the master.

When the master is OK, you send it to the CD plant and produce a series of CDs in the normal way. When you receive the shipment of CDs, which have all been produced from the same glass master and are therefore identical, you run a utility which measures one of the CDs and extracts an access code. This code, which is entirely public, is then included with the CD when it is sold, either as a label, enclosed in the package, or silk-screened onto the CD.

During installation of the software, the user enters the access code. This is done only once (the CD-code can be omitted if a special CD-ROM production process is used). From then on, the software runs only when an original CD is inserted in the CD-ROM drive (click here for special versions where the CD-ROM is not needed every time). The data itself can reside either on the CD or on the hard disk, but the original CD must be present. If a pirate CD is inserted into the drive, the software will refuse to run. Each time a new batch of CDs is produced, a new code must be extracted: one code per batch.

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