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    Default Copy Protecting a DVD ??

    Hi all, does anyone know a way or software that will allow me to protect a dvd so it can't be copied easily, i know people in the know can copy anything, but i have a dvd that i don't want to be copied for personal reasons, so if anyone knows of a way i would be truly thankfull.

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    Isn't it along the lines of aborting the burn after it has finished your scenes but before finalising the dvd video,
    so it still plays in a player, but won't copy properly

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    hmmm interesting i will keep that in mind

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    abourt or eject when when its doing the lead out
    it should play in most players but you cant do a straight copy

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    yea i have tried it and i was still able to copy it ?? i will have to try again.

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    home made pr0n right
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    i doubt that'll work.
    i really cant think of a diy solution.

    as all dvd-r format writing can be read by any dvd-r compatible reader.

    what kind of disc is it?
    movie?files?music?

    maybe burning the files so they aren't recognizable by a windows pc? similar way to the octagon sf918 hdd recordings cant be copied over the a windows pc without a lot of messing around.

    failing that,

    if it is a homemade movie , why not put some product placements in their, or adds etc let anyone who wants to copy it copy it, then make your money off the adds

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    Put a scratch on it, near the centre of the disk, but not on the index.
    This has worked for me, unrecoverable read errors.
    Never noticed it when playing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rob916 View Post
    Put a scratch on it, near the centre of the disk, but not on the index.
    This has worked for me, unrecoverable read errors.
    Never noticed it when playing.
    Yes i have thought of that as i notice on a few dvd i have done before that if the scratch is in the right place it won't copy you get read errors.

    No its not porn i only wish, no its a slide show of my daughters life before she passed away and i converted it to DVD, and i need to do a copy for a family member but i don't want them to copy it. now one of our members put me onto a few programs but they don't do dvd"s

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    water mark the hell out of it!
    Put some text scroll the Whole way through.

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    Tagg , I read this on a Google search , might be worth a try :

    Compress the dvd down to 4300 mb or smaller with dvd shrink, which is free, and when you finish burning the dvd look on the bottom of it and you will see where nothing was burned on it, then just make a mark on spot where there is no data on it and wahla you have your own copy protection.

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    ok guys thank you for all your help, Marking the disk in the right spot did the trick can not be copied, i know it may sound petty not letting others copy the disk but to me it means alot knowing who has my daughters memories to cherish.

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    Tagg it might be able to copy it by putting the disc in a dvd recorder with hhd & copying the disc to hhd then make a copy from hhd to disc. I did this with a crook dvd in a Liteon 5045 recorder.

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    blackpete, i understand that too as most people that are PC savvy can copy most things even with errors thats the chance i have to take.

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    personally anything that can be read, can (in theory be copied) so...
    hope you find a fix.

    sorry to hear about circumstances.


    i'm thinking some form of encryption.... be great if you could somehow encrypt it with run 5 times before no viewing or will not run after xyx date...spose that would not help anyway...


    honestly big software co's sepnd $000000's to do what you asking...
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    interesting topic,
    although im having my doubts that it will work.

    Im pretty sure if you put it in a computer with software that reads the disc in raw mode. (clone cd comes to mind) you should theoretically be able to dump it then put it onto a new disc.

    would you mind giving clone cd a try?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanity View Post
    Tagg , I read this on a Google search , might be worth a try :

    Compress the dvd down to 4300 mb or smaller with dvd shrink, which is free, and when you finish burning the dvd look on the bottom of it and you will see where nothing was burned on it, then just make a mark on spot where there is no data on it and wahla you have your own copy protection.
    What type of mark? re:- Scratch or texta mark?

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