It can be coppied, AND read. BUT, it won't necessarily work when starting the game.

I upgraded the hardware of my Ricoh MP7040a (which didn't support raw dao) to MP7060a firmware 1.8. I copied Alice without a hitch (using latest version of CloneCD) and it installed, but it will not run as it says there's an error in the tmp file. Of course it will run after using the fixed exe file from gamecopyworld.com.

You can also copy the cd to your harddrive, replace the alice.exe, then burn it back. Now THAT does work.

A question about CD readers. Does anyone know of Firmware changes for a plain reader? specifically, a Creative 24Xmx.