The present invention provides an optical disk 9 with a duplication
preventing function, reproducing system 47 for the optical disk 9,
optical disk reproducing method, method of fabricating an optical disk
original record, and illegal program operation stopping method. An area
in which a CP signal 24 is recorded is made after a signal having a
constant pattern in the optical disk, the CP signal 24 being produced
such that the center of an eye pattern is shifted from the center of the
amplitude. In the reproducing system, CP signal arrangement information
25 or a CP preceding signal 26 is detected, before an offset voltage is
applied to a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into
a digital signal so that the threshold value varies, thus normally
reproducing the signal in which center of the eye patter is shifted from
the center of the amplitude. The reproducing system has a function
whereby the reproduction is stopped when a predetermined offset signal is
not reproduced.