CD protection is a popular protection technique.

Many software vendors use this technique to protect their software from illegal distribution, especially those companies who produce multimedia, educational, and gaming software.

On the other side the popularity of CD protection encourages crackers to produce anti-protection techniques. The Softlock Company has worked in CD protection since 1995, the research and development team of Softlock studied all possible techniques, the benefits and penalties of each one, and after all the research was conducted, a new technique was born in 1998 and it became the most popular solution.

The Softlock CD protection technique is very powerful against illegal copying, and very stable on any operating medium. Softlock.CD is a very powerful technique.

There is no backup/copy/emulation technique available for it until now since 2 years. Softlock.CD succeeds to stop advanced CD coping and emulation tools like: Alchol 120% CloneCD CDSpace VirtualCD Blindwrite Daemon Tools Also, Softlock.CD is protected against specialized cracking, reverse engineering, debugging, and disassembling. Softlock.CD compatible within 99.6% of available CD/DVD drives in the market.

Our lab tests our technique against following drives: CD-ROM / CD-Writers Drives DVD-ROM / DVD-Writers / Combo Drives Brand name drives like Dell, HP, Siemens...and others External USB CD/DVD drives (Other techniques do not support those drives) Old and slow drives like 2x, 8x, 16x, 24x, 32x (Other techniques do not support those drives) CD Stampering can be made at any CD Stampring factories allover the world.

Softlock.CD does not required and special equipments or implementaion methods.