Help. Can't copy anything protected anymore

[MrDutchie]

Yes indeed,
The probleem is that my Writer AND DVD player stops as soon as I wanna use Clone CD, the CD is spinning up, and then it sounds like it's going to 1 speed and getting all the read errors
then it takes me 7 hours to finish 1 CD,
even the Skip Error what I'm always using doesn't work anymore
I tried both drives in 4 different machines, and all the same problem.
so could me that something is damaged in both drives at the same time, and if so, WHAT ??????
but that's not it....
a friend of mine bought the Acer 10x8x32 and is having the same problem all the sudden....
this is making the whole story weird...
I'm so puzzled, and now I found out, that Fireburner is giving errors all the time, with the Init String.
So seems that everything is blowed up.
but Nero is working fine and when I use normal cd's it's working fine
everything with protection (C) is not working.
Acer is telling me to upgrade to the latest firmware.... and even that didn't make a difference.
So any suggestions ???