CD MEDIA ANTI-PIRACY GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROCESS

摘要

A system and process that provides for the creation of media that contain mechanisms to prevent unauthorized copying, process security, and flexibility of use. In addition, the system provides methods to create/save a media image, read/write information to/from media, incorporate media-based copy protection mechanisms, incorporate file based validation in connection with a logical defect applied to the media, and embed encrypted information within the media. This embedded, encrypted information can be read and interpreted by replicator imaging, mastering, and external validation programs incorporating either the "plug-ins" or directly coded methodologies/algorithms to prevent false "failure" results or inability to produce the disk from the protected copy.