what's the best proggy that shows a discs' copy protection?

[WardoggOne]

and how to get around it?

[celticp]

clony xxl, works in conjunction with clone cd and others, best for cd based games, for dvd based games, try an iso image with dvd decrypter or somthing (possibly no dvd patch required after).
The boys here will tell you to use alcohol 120%, which i dont have a whole lot of experiance with, but i hear its pretty good.

[Grumpy]

ClonyXXL is now very old and outdated as it hasnt been updated for a very long time! Today I find by far the best programs to use to detect the protection are either 'Protection ID (PID)' or 'A-Ray Scanner'. Both these programs can detect the latest protections. (Protection ID is constantly being updated but all the features are not up and running as yet but it will still detect the more popular protections)
As far as the actual backing up use either CloneCD of Alcohlol 120%. When backing up a CD using Alcohol 120 just choose the 'Datatype' (protection) that either PID or A-Ray detected. There is a little drop down arrow in Alcohol which allows you to choose the datatype.
When backing up DVD games with Alcohol there are no settings (Datatypes) to choose so its even easier.
With CloneCD (which I only use for SecuRom protected games) just choose 'Protected PC Game' as the profile.
All these programs are very easy to use just have a look at them and give them a try.
Use google to search for each program, CloneCD and Alcohol 120% have trial versions available for download, and PID and A-Ray Scanner are available from GameCopyWorld.
This is just a quick guide to using these two great programs, if I had a bit more time of would have supplied you with the links to the programs as well but i think you will find them quite easily.

[nerva]

thies proggs hasnt detected StarForce v3.4

[RkShaRkz]

well, there you go then
no, seriously, if the program can't find the protection, there's two possible things:

One - you're not examining the right file... sometimes the protection is not in the file that u use for running a game, but something other.... im not sure if naming examples is "legal" so i'll just stop here

Two - maybe the program can't detect the protection, in that case, go and search for the protection lists/databases.... there's plenty of those around, and just check the list for the software name and its protection, and unwrap / crack it according to that.....

A-Ray scanner and Protection ID usually find ANY protection available...... that's how i found out about Armadillo in the first place )