Defeating Kai Tracid's (and other key2audio CD protection) on linux
I posted earlier about how pissed I was about the douche-bags over at Sony copy protecting a Kai Tracid CD. After messing around with Linux, I've discovered a solution.
Firstly, this is not breaking an encryption, as such, it is not (to my knowledge) prohibited by the DMCA. key2audio works via bruning junk data onto the end of the CD and confusing a CD-Rom drive making it unreadable. So, I looked around for a way to do error corrections.
Here's what you do:
Insert your CD (duh)
EDIT: For CDs that are readable by the computer, but have their tracks hidden or otherwise inaccessible, you will need to dismount the cd first. To do this open the terminal and type "mount". You should get a list of the currently mounted volumes, look for the one with "/dev/cdrw on [something]" or "/dev/cd[something] on [something]". You'll want to make note of the first /dev/* bit, ignore the "on [whatever]". Now type in "sudo umount /dev/[whatever it was]". Continue as you were.
open up your terminal and type in: "cdrdao read-cd [filename]" with filename being whatever you want.
It will process your CD and discover your tracks and you'll see at the end it has something called the "Leadout" which is the result of the process of burning junk data. cdrdao will ignore this.
Let it chug away.
When its done, get a CD-R, and put it into the drive. Now, go to your terminal and type "cdrdao write [filename]" with filename being the same filename use above.
Once its done you'll have to eject the disk and re-insert it, but then, you should be able to rip it using any of your favorite OS's.
Firstly, this is not breaking an encryption, as such, it is not (to my knowledge) prohibited by the DMCA. key2audio works via bruning junk data onto the end of the CD and confusing a CD-Rom drive making it unreadable. So, I looked around for a way to do error corrections.
Here's what you do:
Insert your CD (duh)
EDIT: For CDs that are readable by the computer, but have their tracks hidden or otherwise inaccessible, you will need to dismount the cd first. To do this open the terminal and type "mount". You should get a list of the currently mounted volumes, look for the one with "/dev/cdrw on [something]" or "/dev/cd[something] on [something]". You'll want to make note of the first /dev/* bit, ignore the "on [whatever]". Now type in "sudo umount /dev/[whatever it was]". Continue as you were.
open up your terminal and type in: "cdrdao read-cd [filename]" with filename being whatever you want.
It will process your CD and discover your tracks and you'll see at the end it has something called the "Leadout" which is the result of the process of burning junk data. cdrdao will ignore this.
Let it chug away.
When its done, get a CD-R, and put it into the drive. Now, go to your terminal and type "cdrdao write [filename]" with filename being the same filename use above.
Once its done you'll have to eject the disk and re-insert it, but then, you should be able to rip it using any of your favorite OS's.