Optical media protection driver

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including computer executable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the installation of a driver on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium which performs a method comprising:

• determining whether an optical medium inserted into a drive of the computer is a target optical data medium or a non-target optical data medium, wherein the target optical data medium is a data medium protected against unauthorized copying with a computer, and
• when the inserted optical data medium is the target optical data medium,
• modifying read requests to protected data areas of the target optical data medium so that either no data is read or the read data is modified to be useless, and/or
• modifying write commands in respect to data within protected data areas to a recordable data medium or other storage so that the written data is modified to be useless,
• wherein the modifying of read requests and/or write commands is performed only when no authentication of the computer is available.

A method for protecting content within protected data areas on a target optical data medium against unauthorized copying with a computer, comprising:

• determining whether an optical data medium inserted into a drive of the computer is the target optical data medium or a non-target optical data medium, wherein the target optical data medium is a data medium protected against unauthorized copying with a computer, and
• when the inserted optical data medium is the target optical data medium,
• modifying read requests to the protected data areas so that either no data is read or the read data is modified, and/or
• modifying write commands in respect to the data within the protected data areas to a recordable data medium or other storage so that the written data is modified to be useless,
• wherein the determining and modifying steps are performed by routines of a driver implemented into a drive control layer within the computer, wherein the routines replace original routines of the drive control layer, and
• wherein the modifying of read requests and/or write commands is performed only when no authentication of the computer is available.

A method for protecting content within protected data areas on a target optical data medium against unauthorized copying with a computer, comprising:

• determining whether an optical data medium inserted into a drive of the computer is the target optical data medium or a non-target optical data medium, wherein the target optical data medium is a data medium protected against unauthorized copying with a computer, and
• when the inserted optical data medium is the target optical data medium,
• modifying read requests to the protected data areas so that either no data is read or the read data is modified, and/or
• modifying write commands in respect to the data within the protected data areas to a recordable data medium or other storage so that the written data is modified to be useless,
• wherein the determining and modifying steps are performed by a driver installed on the computer, wherein the driver is installed by an executable that is automatically started when a target optical data medium is inserted into the drive, and
• wherein the modifying of read requests and/or write commands is performed only when no authentication of the computer is available.