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Originally Posted by watsonofearnock
I was told by a regular who recently parted with his 300C that there was some doubt as to whether all copies would work on the mapping device player. However if they did and were read once then they updated the device and you could NOT revert back to an earlier edition of the map/disc. Also that there was a story to the effect that that particular device while able to read copied discs found them somewhat indigestible and the reader could incur damage and end up not playing at all. Perhaps some of our members who are more into DVD/computers/copying software etc would comment.
Cheers John
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Hi john,
there is the possibility of copy protection being applied to the disc but it's mainly companies like Sony who use this. Normally the DVD drive will read any disc and if the software is readable it should run. I'm assuming the disc is read every time you start the car or put in a new route and would think it unusual to apply any particular software patch to the dvd drive itself. I could be wrong.
I can't find (having just looked inside the jewel case) any software licensing agreement so assume that I would be allowed to make a "backup" copy for my own purposes thus ensuring that if the disc becomes corrupted I will have some sort of backup of it.