CD Ripping 'The Bain of My Life'

[ICTNUT]

Does anyone know how to stop / disable the cd ripping features in WM10 via GPO

Also the same for real player but not as urgent.

[StewartKnight]

try www.cdfreaks.com, they usually have all the cd answers!!

[StewartKnight]

oops! sorry, misread your question (not had any sleep )

I thought you wanted to know HOW to rip!

I've disabled the CD drives, that helps!

[andy]

I've taken the CD drives out - that about does it also!!! The ones I've left in - the kids have wrecked - helpful little blighters aren't they?



Andy.

[ICTNUT]

Yeah I agree when they are broke they are not getting replaced however the are still a large number of machines that have cd drives in them.


Hmm just had a thought, i'll be back.......

[ChrisH]

Use filmon and see if you can track the ripping feature down to a particular dll. Most of the other programs that do ripping all seem to use the lame_enc.dll (not media player though) although I seem to remember seeing this in a real player folder possibly once.
Just stick a software restriction policy on anything you find.

[Geoff]

Here's a Group Policy ADM template for you. Disables USB/Floppy/CD/LS-120 drives. If you need to disable anything else (whats the DVD driver called?) just add another section.

CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY !!category
 CATEGORY !!categoryname
  POLICY !!policynameusb
   KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR"
   EXPLAIN !!explaintextusb
     PART !!labeltextusb DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
 
       VALUENAME "Start"
       ITEMLIST
        NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 3 DEFAULT
        NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
       END ITEMLIST
     END PART
   END POLICY
  POLICY !!policynamecd
   KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom"
   EXPLAIN !!explaintextcd
     PART !!labeltextcd DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
 
       VALUENAME "Start"
       ITEMLIST
        NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 1 DEFAULT
        NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
       END ITEMLIST
     END PART
   END POLICY
  POLICY !!policynameflpy
   KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Flpydisk"
   EXPLAIN !!explaintextflpy
     PART !!labeltextflpy DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
 
       VALUENAME "Start"
       ITEMLIST
        NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 3 DEFAULT
        NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
       END ITEMLIST
     END PART
   END POLICY
  POLICY !!policynamels120
   KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sfloppy"
   EXPLAIN !!explaintextls120
     PART !!labeltextls120 DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
 
       VALUENAME "Start"
       ITEMLIST
        NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 3 DEFAULT
        NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
       END ITEMLIST
     END PART
   END POLICY
 END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY
 
[strings]
category="Custom Policy Settings"
categoryname="Restrict Drives"
policynameusb="Disable USB"
policynamecd="Disable CD-ROM"
policynameflpy="Disable Floppy"
policynamels120="Disable High Capacity Floppy"
explaintextusb="Disables the computers USB ports by disabling the usbstor.sys driver"
explaintextcd="Disables the computers CD-ROM Drive by disabling the cdrom.sys driver"
explaintextflpy="Disables the computers Floppy Drive by disabling the flpydisk.sys driver"
explaintextls120="Disables the computers High Capacity Floppy Drive by disabling the sfloppy.sys driver"
labeltextusb="Disable USB Ports"
labeltextcd="Disable CD-ROM Drive"
labeltextflpy="Disable Floppy Drive"
labeltextls120="Disable High Capacity Floppy Drive"
Enabled="Enabled"
Disabled="Disabled"

[ICTNUT]

I'm back,

Disabled CD vis GPO lets see how that gets em going. :-)

[ICTNUT]

@ ChrisH: I'll look for the dll, thanks for the pointer.

@ geoff: nice adm template however I have all those blocked already (2003 GPO) although the USB could come in handy.

Thanks Guys

[mac_shinobi]

Just pull the data cable out of the drives ( cd or dvd or w/e )

Other then that if you really wanted I am sure windows media player has a setting in its options to disable ripping, if you find out what registry key you need to apply to disable it you could possibly make a startup script to apply that registry key to all machines as apposed to going around each of the machines.

[Bubba]

Just a quick thought and this is not tested, but you could deploy a registry change to alter the location that WMP tries to rip the mp3 files to. You could set it to somewhere that the pupils don't have access.

Bubba.