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Protect Copyrighted DVD's

  • 17-05-2009 9:31pm
    #1
    one2one
    Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭


    Hi Guys, I don't know weather this is the right forum to post this in so mod's move if you want.

    I am making DVD's for a local club of a fundraising event & I want to make the DVD's copyright protected - i.e. make them un-copyable. I know some people will try and copy them but I am selling them so its a loss to me and the club.

    If anyone has any tips please post.

    Thanks alot.


Comments

  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Pointless IMO, why bother, its very easy to remove and anyone capable of copying them without protection is capable googling to find out how (if they don't know already)


  • #3
    one2one
    Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭one2one


    Is there any way I could do it though?


  • #4
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    http://www.macrovision.com/products/content_publishers/ripguard.htm

    I don't know for sure, but I would imagine their license is ridiculously priced. I'm not aware of any cheap or open source variants but they may exist.


  • #5
    54kroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭54kroc


    Don't bother if somebody wants to copy your dvd they just have to google dvd ripper.
    I'd say sell them at a good value price


  • #6
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    The industry solution is CSS, but that is very expensive to license, ie You pay to use these technologies. If you're selling DVD-Rs copies you're burning yourself, you cannot add CSS protection, AFAIK the CSS information cannot be burned by dvd burners.

    Unlike the music and movie industry, You should sell at a decent price and nobody will bother to copy them then


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  • #7
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Not worth it imo. Also - think about it - if this is a fundraiser the people who want to support the club will buy it. The people who'll copy it wouldn't buy it anyway. Not worth the hassle.


  • #8
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,264 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    You could do something strange like pad it out to be on a dual layer DVD, anyone who knows how to rip a dual layer DVD to fit on a single layer is going to be well able to rip a DVD no matter what kind of protection is on it.

    Its not a great idea though, it rises costs and i dont know how many people it would cut out.


  • #9
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    Making a dual layer DVD is probably the best option.

    If its size is greater than 5Gigs then it will rule out most
    people copying it directly to another DVD.

    Other than that, if someone wants to rip it,
    they will no matter what you do.

    The movie industry spends millions trying to stop this and fail every time.


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