the nyu cdrom

[hatem101980]

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is it possible to copy the cdrom

 

[ItsGavinC]

Nope. A company who creates a product and charges students $1,000-$2,500 each YEAR to use that product isn't going to be dumb enough to allow students to copy it.

I own the dammed product and still had to go through hell and high waters to get permission to copy it onto my own desktop computer at home.

 

[speter33]

I think I'd be able to hack and copy anything out there. But you'd still have to pay for the CD and pay for it every year, it's a school rule! I think there's some sort of reasoning that the school has to make all students buy it, otherwise if only a few buy it the company gets suspicious.

 

[sandman]

Is this like the test cdrom from tufts with the past exams and K@pl@n stuff or something completely different?

 

[ItsGavinC]

Is this like the test cdrom from tufts with the past exams and K@pl@n stuff or something completely different?

Nope, it's the Vitalsource DVD that contains the textbooks.

 

[ItsGavinC]

I think I'd be able to hack and copy anything out there.

But then you'd also have to hack the reader as well. That is actually the tricky part.

 

[speter33]

But then you'd also have to hack the reader as well. That is actually the tricky part.

Either way the school automatically charges you for the CD. So there's nothing to gain.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Either way the school automatically charges you for the CD. So there's nothing to gain.

Sure there is in theory. You could sell the entire package to nearly anybody. Of course, all of that would be highly illegal and not proper conduct for professional students.

 

[grtuck]

I would actually have to say that it probably IS possible to hack it. It is incredible what a good hacker can do, actually they tend to call it "reverse engineering" for stuff like this. It is done fairly commonly for other high dollar stuff found on CD's, the problem is that there isn't a market for them to do this. The groups that do this stuff like to patch or crack things that a lot of people will use, not something for a small group of people.

On the other hand, I have to agree with Gavin, it would be EXTREMELY unprofessional and highly illegal to do that.

grtuck

 

[sxr71]

Can you at least dump it onto your laptop's hard drive? I don't have an optical drive on mine (and yes I will be paying for it every year, so my intention is not to steal it but to use it from a hard drive).

 

[ItsGavinC]

Can you at least dump it onto your laptop's hard drive? I don't have an optical drive on mine (and yes I will be paying for it every year, so my intention is not to steal it but to use it from a hard drive).

I dunno how NYU works. At Arizona, we have it on our hard drives and only saw the DVD the first couple of days of the year.

 

[sxr71]

I dunno how NYU works. At Arizona, we have it on our hard drives and only saw the DVD the first couple of days of the year.

Wow, that would be perfect!

 

[vietho26]

yes you can hack the dvd or cdrom. Nero software and even the hacked version of cd-rite can skip the bad track copy protection scheme and just lift the data off the cd. Did it all the time in school for many years. The Digital Millenium Rights Act prohibits copying but they have enough clauses in the law to still allow intelligence to have all the tools of digital espionage at their hands.

 

[UNLV OMS GUNNABE]

Can you at least dump it onto your laptop's hard drive? I don't have an optical drive on mine (and yes I will be paying for it every year, so my intention is not to steal it but to use it from a hard drive).

You can use it from the DVD or you can copy all the book files to your hard drive. At UNLV we have people that use it both ways. I copied it to my drive. It's only 5 gigs and it's way faster that way. You can also erase the books you don't want.

 

[aah_289]

You can use it from the DVD or you can copy all the book files to your hard drive. At UNLV we have people that use it both ways. I copied it to my drive. It's only 5 gigs and it's way faster that way. You can also erase the books you don't want.

Also, keep in mind that optical (CD/DVD) drives are the most juice intensive components of your laptop. Not having to use the drive when you're on batteries will DOUBLE your battery life per charge. So if you plan to use the software, it's a good thing that you don't need the disc every time you run it.

 

[ItsGavinC]

yes you can hack the dvd or cdrom

But it's more complicated than that because the viewer that is necessary to actually view the books contains a code that is only responsive on one machine.

 

[grtuck]

Like I mentioned above, it's not super hard to do.

It MAY involve a little more than using Nero (good program), but there are a number of programs that can be found numerous places on the internet that can get around anything. Remember its only software, so all you have to do is change a couple of lines of programming. Stuff like this is done ALL the time, for very "secure" programs that use multiple online verifications for the software.

I'm not trying to be argumentative (or flame anyone), in fact this is a rather silly thing to even discuss as we are dental professionals, just wanted to put in my 2 cents. 🙂

grtuck