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Make a CD run once

Asked 2008-09-03T18:11:09.963
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We're doing an "Amazing Race" kind of event, and thought it would be cool to have CDs that could only play once... like a "this message will self destruct in 5 seconds..."

Any thoughts on how to do this? I was thinking it could be a compiled HTML website that would write a cookie and only play once. I don't want to write to the registry (don't want to depend on windows, don't want to install anything, etc).

I also don't care if it's hackable... This is a one-time fun event, and I don't really care too much if people could remove the cookie or something.

Any other ideas?

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You could also set a registry key that would prevent playing, though this could be bypassed.

answered 2008-09-03T19:59:52.167
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Not quite what you're looking for, but you could put in on re-writable media and have an executable over-write itself (or part of itself).

I don't know if a CD-RW could do that automatically, or if you would have to look at cheap USB sticks.

answered 2008-09-03T18:17:50.493

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