[Spridgets] Those F'ing CDs that [don't seem to]Rock [anymore]

[chuck]

Hal, can you open the CD with Explorer and copy the PDF files
to the hard drive and try from there???

Hal Faulkner wrote:
> Hey, what happened?
> A couple of days ago I tried to open my Heritage Motor Centre CD of manuals
> for the bugeye, in search of torque information for the rear axle: it
> wouldn't open.  Got a "not a pdf or corrupt file " error message.
> Thinking that it could be my cd reader, I tried it on another computer, same
> result.  Well, it's wierd that it won't read the files, so I tried a third
> computer, and finally a fourth: no joy.  Thinking, it must be the CD, I
> tried my other CD for the later models.  Same story.  Both CDs used to work.
> Here's the info: operating systems Win 2K advanced server, Win 2K, Ubunntu
> linux.  All various pentium type computers with plenty of memory.  Both
> acrobat reader and Foxit give me the same result.
> Other pdf files open just fine.  I've got to think it's got something to do
> with the copy protection system on the CDs.
> Anyone else had a similar problem?  Know how to defeat the copy protection?
> Hal