TAGES

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Twin Sector DRM by Tages SA made in partnership with MPO Technologies and purely found on discs made by the later (IFPI L031-L040) or one of their partners (IFPI L063, IFPI LL27 and IFPI LN06).

Later (~2006) an Online activation version of DRM was also introduced as well as an additional DRM layer in the form of SolidShield. These can be hard to separate from one another as discs would often ship with both the activator and/or the disc check driver despite not using one of them. And sometimes they are also embedded within the Solidshield dll making BOS unable to see them. In these situations, make sure the ringcode is one of the above and check the PVD sector of the skeleton for Tages mastering. If present, disc is using the Twin Sector version and if not its most likely using the online activation or has just remnants.

Like all Twin Sector based DRMs; Existing dumps are "bad" due to not incorporating the after mentioned Twin Sectors. A working dump can at the moment only be done using DT Pro with the twin sector profile and resulting dump will be encrypted

("use Tages profile (DT Pro), "verify sectors" option on (Virtual CD), uncheck divide image file option, both .MDS and .MDF files needed as those are encrypted")