Nonsense. Alcohol has no difficulties at all in producing working copies of safedisc 2.9 protected games with suitable hardware. If you get phantom read errors using alcohol or any other app for that matter, just alter the reading speed.

As a general rule, always try reading safedisc cds initially at max speed. If you get phantom read errors (which, btw, are much more common when reading from a copy than from an original), then slow the reading speed by incremental margins until you get a speed where they don't occur. (I can't recall ever having to reduce reading speed below 16x to eliminate all phantom errors with alcohol where reading from an original cd).