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How does copying a DVD damage it?
I rented a movie and when I took it out of the box it looked strange; the data side was all patterned and the DVD player just put up a flickering checkerboard. When I went back to the store for a refund, the manager just looked at it and said, "Oh, somebody tried to copy this". I'm curious. How can just reading the disk damage it?
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- portishead_22Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Copying a dvd doesn't damage it, it uses the same laser to play it as it does to read the information off of the original dvd, copy it to a location in the computer's memory (desktop, hard drive, etc) and then write it to a dvd-r/w, dvd+r/w using the same laser.
The dvd was probably left in the dashboard of a car, or damaged in some other way, because dvd copying doesn't cause the data side to be patterned.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It can't, he probably was just lying to try to get you to go away and stop asking him questions.
