the drive has nothing to do with getting past copy protection. you need software to get past the copy protection depending on what you want to do if you want to back up a dvd any dvd or dvd region= css free running in the backround will take care of most any thing that might come up as far as copy protection same for games if they are on cd or dvds the drive just spins and reads the disk other programs for copying are nero, ashampoo, blindwrite, are just a few