mount "damaged" disk image in shellscript on 10.4

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Wed Jul 30 14:13:14 PDT 2008


On 30-Jul-2008, at 11:49, John C. Welch wrote:

> On 7/30/08 12:12 PM, "LuKreme" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>
>>> If the disk is required to use the games, it's possible that the
>>> disk is in some way intentionally damaged in order to guarantee that
>>> the system won't make a copy of it.  Otherwise, the "protection
>>> scheme" would not be very useful :-}
>>
>> Not unless they are Windows games.  OS X doesn't allow that sort of  
>> BS.
>
> Huh? How does OS X prevent people from being greedy and stupid and
> implementing a proprietary filesystem with a custom driver?

Well, 1) have you ever seen one?  2) Will OS X load a driver off a CD  
in order to load the CD?

In windows, a CD can be 'copy-protected' and copies of that disc will  
not work (at least not without some massaging).  I've never found that  
to be true off a Mac CD.

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