CloneCD is proprietary

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for

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music and data CDs and

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s, capable of making exact, 1:1 copies even of

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discs, bypassing several types of

digital rights management Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures, such as access control technologies, can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM ...

(DRM). CloneCD can rip discs to create

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in its own file format,

CloneCD Control File A CloneCD Control File is a text descriptor with the extension .ccd used by CloneCD to store the subcode data of a CD/DVD image. These files need to be combined with an image file (usually with .img extension) to be burned. It may also come w ...

(.ccd), which is capable of storing disc

subcode data Subcode or subchannel data (called ''control bytes'' in the CD-ROM specification) is data contained in a compact disc (CD) in addition to digital audio or user data, which is used for control and playback of the CD. The original specification was ...

. CloneCD was originally written by Oliver Kastl and offered by

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company Elaborate Bytes, but due to changes in European copyright law, they were forced to take it off the market. The last version of CloneCD made by Elaborate Bytes was version 4.2.0.2. The software was subsequently sold by SlySoft, a company located in

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, whose legislation does not ban the circumvention of DRM schemes. Since 2016, it is sold by Belize/Latvia based RedFox. As of June 2024 CloneCD is no longer available for purchase and appears to be abandoned. https://www.dvdfab.cn/resource/dvd/clonecd-review-and-alternative#part1

Region restrictions in older versions

In older versions of "''CloneCD''", the features "''Amplify Weak Sectors''", "''Protected PC Games''", and "''Hide CDR Media''" were disabled in the United States of America and Japan. Changing the region and language settings in Windows (e. g. to Canadian English) and/or patches could unlock these features in the two countries. SlySoft decided to leave these options disabled for the US for legal reasons, but no features were disabled. The current version of CloneCD is not region-restricted.

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RedFox
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Region restrictions in older versions

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