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1. videomike4950
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   Does anyone know of a program that can be used to protect my dance recital DVDs from being copied ?
   Sales at these dance shows are slipping and I believe it is because some parents are making copies for their friends, on their PCs.

   I read VideoMaker magazine every month, but have yet to see anything comprehensive on this topic.
   I need software I can use here, at my studio, where I make my master with Pinnacle Studio and burn/print dupes with a Bravo II disc publisher.
   I don`t want to send my master out to MacroVision or anything.

   Can anyone help ? Please ?

   Thank you !
   -Mike

    

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2. TheDVshow
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   DVD authoring software like Sonic’s DVD Producer, Adobe Encore DVD and others have copy protection built right in.

   DVDs produced by consumer authoring programs are not protected, so that anyone
   with a DVD burner can simply copy the entire thing onto another disc.

   “CSS” stands for Content Scrambling System, which is the method used to encrypt
   files on a DVD and prevent the user from copying the files to a hard drive from a
   DVD-ROM drive.

   Pressed DVDs from Hollywood studios use CSS and Macrovision protection methods,
   which sets protection on a track-by-track or marker-by-marker basis in the Track
   menu, but there are many programs available that will copy even these protected
   DVDs with one click using a CSS decrypter- not worth it in my opinion and
   Macrovision is an expensive option.

   If you want the copyright on your work to be observed, practically speaking, my best
   advice is to maintain a good relationship with your customers. Also use well-designed
   packaging, disc surface printing, cover art and inserts to support the idea that your
   original DVD is something of value to be respected.

   A few technical tricks is to make ghost or un-referenced files on a DVD - all you have
   to do is import the mpeg2 file into your DVD authoring program and add it to the
   project but don’t point anything to it - add random dummy files making it much
   harder for those who use ifo editors to see which program is the actual presentation.
   Import a blank 720x480 .bmp and make it act as if it's a movie - but make them
   unreferenced.

   Another trick is to author onto dual layer so it makes it harder to do a 1:1 copy
   All this is very easy and NOT really time consuming at all.

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