How to copy protect?

GFFmatt wrote on 10/5/2009, 10:10 PM
I have DVD Architect pro 5.0 and need to copy protect the DVDs I'm making.

I know to go to project properties, select copy protect and I have it set to "on" and copy generations set to "none"...but what do I do with CSS and Macrovision? I'm an unfamiliar with either of those terms.

Am I doing this right so far? And what setting do I choose for the CSS and Macrovision?

Thanks in advance!

-MG

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 10/5/2009, 10:18 PM
Sorry, but DVDA does not encrypt DVDs burned on your machine.
The settings you refer to only set encryption flags for commercial replicators.
Third, DVD encryption does no good whatsoever to deter anyone who is determined to copy a DVD.
Former user wrote on 10/6/2009, 6:00 AM
As Musicvid said, unless you are having these DVDs commercially pressed by a replicator, you cannot copyguard them. The settings in DVDA and other DVD programs only set flags for the replicator to use to encode the copyguard scheme. Many of these schemes actually add additional cost to the per disc replication.

At best on a burned DVD, you can put a visual warning about it being copyrighted material.

Dave T2
A. Grandt wrote on 10/6/2009, 8:12 AM
At present there are no effective 'copy protection' on DVD's (and AFAIK hardly any on BD's either, apart from sheer size).

All they do is adding cost to your production, and they add no legal protection not already provided by even pre-DMCA copyright law. It is still illegal to make copies of copyrighted material, no matter how may layers of useless (yet costly) DRM and/or 'copy protection' you add.

There are sadly some people who just will not pay for what they use, try to forget about that minority, and spend your energy and money on providing the best product to those that do pay. And if you save a buck by not 'copy protecting' your disc, award the paying customers by passing on that saving to them.

I put quotes around 'copy protection' simply because so far, 'copy protection', ain't.
Anyone with an internet connection and 5 minutes of patience can Google their way to an application that can copy any so called 'copy protected' disc if they want.

And in honesty, I fail to see the problem of allowing law abiding citizens to create backups of valuable discs.