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That kind of thing has been an industry pipe dream for decades. There's no such thing as copy protection.

You cannot prevent the CD from being read because how would your application get at it's data??

You could use a third party encryption driver that is required to read the CD, but this adds a large layer of complexity to the application, and for simple tutotials, this is way overkill, not cheap, and probably something the users will not feel is worth the trouble. It's also easily defeatable. All the users would have to do is load the driver, then copy all the files off the CD to an unecrypted location and burn a new disk without the encryption.

You also cannot disable the burning features of CD/DVD drives because the users would just throw lawsuits at you for tampering with their machines. You have no right to disable features of their computer that they would normally use outside of your application.


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