Copy Protection

stormrager wrote on 6/20/2008, 8:11 PM

Hello, I enabled the copy protection in the properties using no CGMS with the CSS on and Macrovision on Type III, but when I go and burn the dvd it is not copy protected. What am I doing wrong that is causing it not to be enabled?

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MSmart wrote on 6/20/2008, 8:34 PM

Nothing.

It just adds information to your DVD for a duplicating company to use those features when they duplicate your discs.

Do a "copy protection" search of this forum using "all dates" to find many threads on the subject.

THIS thread has a link to a DVD Architect 3 new features video. At 32:57, Copy Protection is explained.

MPM wrote on 6/21/2008, 9:13 AM

If it helps to save some time...

Unless a client demands copy protection, you might be better off skipping it entirely, as some major studios are doing...

It's extra cost, extra hassles with more viewers who can't play your DVD, extra dup prep problems (may have to rent a tape machine etc.), for very little if any benefit. DVDFab can circumvent CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, & structure protections for free. It can bypass unplayable cells & title sets, and read discs that Windows itself can't read. So in a nutshell, if you're going to lose any money due to copying, the costs of copy protection only add to your losses.

At least initially BD is probably more secure. - it's not that it can't be ripped, but the cost of entry in time and money is much higher, just like a few years ago when for most home viewers the costs of copying DVDs just wasn't worth it compared to the purchase price of the retail DVD. And as long as SD DVDs are available, there's little incentive to develop hundreds of apps to transcode the contents to mp4 for the portables.