9yr old scratches his cd's

[RincewindTheWiz]

flangie please don't get mad. The simple truth is that copy protections have been rapidly evolving the past few years. It used to be rather easy to make a fully working backup, but nowadays you have to be willing to at least learn a bit about the working methods to copy specific copy protections and even then it will be difficult. If you do not like this, remember that we don't like it either but the fault lies with the publishers using these schemes. They have been trying for years to prevent you and everyone else from making backups so don't be surprised if it's hard to do. There hasn't been a single copy protection that has stopped pirates from making copies, and the publishers know that. These copy protections are in place to stop ordinary folks (like you) from making the backups they're legally entitled to. Remember that the ultimate (and only possible) protest against these sorts of practices is still the good old-fashioned boycot, they won't listen to anything else.

If you still want to make backups, read the FAQS and try to learn a bit or this will be straight impossible for you. Cracks are easier to use but the copy protections get harder and harder to crack so fewer and fewer cracks get made.