How to add simple copy protection to a dvd?

[Phoenix4]

Hey,

I'm planning on making compilation dvd's with dvd-lab with around 6 svcd's on it. And while i don't mind lending them to friends, i do mind them for copying the dvd's like madman's. So is there any way for me to give the dvd a copy protection so that 1 on 1 copies can't be done? I don't minde if one is still able to rip the dvd, as my friends do not know how to do that.

Thnx,

Phoenix4

[thayne]

No

[macleod]

this topic has been heavily discussed about a billion times on this forum. More heated conversations within the last week or so.

As far as copy protection, the previous answer is technically wrong, but ONLY if you want to spend about 10K (i pulled this number from a previous post) to get the media professionaly done with CSS, blah, blah, blah put on it.

The thing is is that if your friends are smart enough to copy the 10K media, it is unlikely they wouldnt be smart enough to use a ripper. Unless they use nero and it says copy protected and they stop there, aint gonna happen.

Should be a poster on here pretty soon that will talk about some software that puts error something or other on the DVD.

PLEASE, and I am begging you here, dont ask, do a forum search and find it. It will have been in the last few weeks.

If you REALLY want to try SOME free way to do it, all I could even begin to suggest would be to physically do something to the DVD, such that it would be playable, but not rippable (hope you see where I am going with this).

[Phoenix4]

Well my friends aren't to clever and if they burn it they burn it with Nero (unless Discjuggler can burn dvd's too). I basically want to do it because one of my friends' father multiplies it and spreads it on his work, and i hate it if he does that. And i don't mind if it is rippable (it always is), i just don't want him to make 1on1 copies.

[Cornucopia]

Simple answer: Don't give the disc out to that friend, or anyone who would give it to them.

Otherwise, author it so that it requires a "passcode" to view the videos. It's not at all hackproof, but if somebody doesn't understand that and are stopped by a password screen, they might be lame enough to give up right then.

See Vitualis' VCDImager guide on code screens for VCD/SVCD. For DVD, create a hidden button with a convoluted path, or (high end only) create a telephone pushbutton menu with programming logic that requires a particular password.

One other novel idea, make a DVD that is Region 7 only! This is a "reserved" region, and would make it unplayable except on machines hacked to be truly region-free or region-selectable.

Hoping this is the end of this question,
Scott


>>>>>edited note:
For (S)VCD's, make sure you put your main videos as "segments" and not as "sequences", as this will make sure that somebody can't bypass your "password menu" just by turning off PBC.

[spiderman2k1]

There is one way to copy protect a DVD that no one can copy. Take the disc and break it then glue it back together. When they try to rip the DVD the glue will stop the laser from ripping and give error's.

[Cornucopia]

spiderman2k1,
That "method" will probably make the disc unplayable as well.

[jdizzy40]

So you are saying your friends are not as bright of you, but you seem to think that you can come up with a way to make a copy protection better than Hollywood that had already been defeated. Are you related to that guy that posted last week, same subject?

[ptmurphy]

Basically, if the movie studios have been unable to prevent it, with unlimited budgets as far as you and I are concerned (well, at least me), I don't think there is really anything you can do.

Most people have at least one computer geek in their life that could handle copying any DVD for them if needed.

[Vejita-sama]

No.

The answer is was and will always be no. Sure you could add CSS but that's neither simple (as the original question asked) or cheap (which he didn't ask but is important).

Just accept it, don't question it, it can not be done. Life is a lot easier when you accept certain truths. Like you're going to die or the sun is hot. Sure we could get into a debate about the soul or if the sun will go super nova and burn out. But that's really kind of a waste of time.

If you don't want other people copying your work do not produce it. Really, because 'if I can see it I can copy it' is another basic truth of the world

[handyguy]

If they can see it on the screen they can record it with a camcorder that is pointed at the screen, so see, no you can't protect it very well.