SafeDisc

FastLane Tek is proud to announce our affiliation with Danex Corporation, the only authorized North American SafeDisc Encryption Provider.

Overview
SafeDisc by is the world’s most successful, effective, and widely used copy protection solution for CD-ROM.

SafeDisc was created by industry leader Macrovision to assist the software industry protect their intellectual property. SafeDisc is the ideal tool for expanding software revenues while reducing delivery costs. Applying SafeDisc:

	Protects against unauthorized CD copying with a CD-R burner
	Stops a professional mastering company from re-mastering the CD-ROM
	Prevents users from copying the contents of a CD-ROM to their hard drives and removing the original CD
	Stops users from running the product over a network from networked CD-ROM drives
	Improves sales and revenues and opens new markets

With the increased availability and reduced cost of CD-R writers, illegal copying has never been easier. Now you can curb illegal copying of your software by applying SafeDisc technology to your product.

Before SafeDisc Protection
	Original	CD-R or CD-RW	Good Copy

After SafeDisc Protection
	Original	CD-R or CD-RW	Bad Copy

How does SafeDisc work
SafeDisc works by encrypting your application and forcing it to look for a unique digital signature on the CD before launching. If the signature exists, the program runs normally. If the digital signature is missing (as on a copied CD), the program terminates.

SafeDisc was designed to protect applications, but special techniques now allow the protection of some data files as well. Currently the list of data files affording themselves to protection include:

Windows® Media Player files

Word documents

Excel spreadsheets

PowerPoint presentations

Portable Document Format (PDF) files