Copy protection with DVD-Lab

[Dragon777]

Hi

I have created a DVD which is going to be sold by our sports club and therefore I need to put any kind of copy protection on the DVD.
I know that every copy protection can be cracked easily, but the average next door guy should not be able to copy it through his Nero or whatever burner he is using.

I have authored the DVD with DVD-Lab pro.
Any suggestions about how I can put a copy protection on the disk is appreciated!

Thanks alot
Dominik

[influenza]

Burn it on princo dvds ;)

[Dragon777]

Hi

Burn it on princo dvds ;)

What do you mean by THAT?

Dominik

[influenza]

It wasn't very serious of course.

But since Princo's degrade so quickly usually, your dvd won't be rippable after some time. Best protection possible ;)

[mpucoder]

Was it Princo that developed the self-erasing DVD that the MPAA embraced for rentals? Seriously, I don't know how that company stays in business, my first experience was CD-RW that erased in a week.
As for copy protection, you need more advanced authoring programs that are licensed for CSS. CSS can be authored onto DLT or DVD-R (with the longer sector size) - Scenarist is one that can do this.
Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort. And forget adding Macrovision, $10 on eBay gets you a device that corrects the timing errors and VIT overmodulation in the analog signal.

As for who can copy a DVD, it is not the average guy next door that you need to worry about. This is the illogic of copy protection. The guy next door who makes a copy on his PC is probably excercising a fair use right. At the very least, he is not a wholesale pirate who will cut deeply into your profits. But the real pirates that can undermine your sales have all the tools needed to bypass ANY copy protection.

[goonix]

Mpucoder is absolutely right!

Advertise your DVD in a good way and sell them for a fair price.
So nobody needs to copy them.
And using the fair right for a private copy should be a matter of course!

goonix