The reason you can't copy the little blighters are little programs set into the cd confuse writers and load up your memory making it impossible to do, this may be fine for the chaps making tousands of copies but if your not up to that game its a bit anoying.laser thread or something similar is one program..
try reading the same line in a book a million times and then you get the idea...

and the aforementioned programs don't have that problem