PSDK - read defect sectors ?

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Zitat von cdkiller:

how can i read defect sector with the win api functions ?

That's an oxymoron....how could you read sectors if they're broken? All you could do is trying to detect whether the sector is bad or not. But there's no high-level api for something like this, so you'd need to write a driver. I don't see a point in "copy protections" because you invest months/years in development and it's being cracked within only a few hours or days. Plus copy protection really is bugging your clients! If I were a software vendor, I wouldn't "protect" CDs/DVDs this way. Plus, unless sectors aren't physically broken, it doesn't make sense because you could always duplicate the disk. Oh, and note that you can't call a copy-protected medium "CD"!