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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/3/2005, 4:26 PM
It's not a major hassle at all. Just the licensing, and that takes just a few minutes to set up. You can download the forms from their site, fill em' out, and send your product to the replicator. They verify that you're licensed, and away you go.
For less than 5000 units, it's VERY expensive. It doesn't get really valuable until you hit 10k units, but you CAN allocate the units across a year. So, if you feel you'll do 10 runs of 1K disks over a year, it's quite cost-effective IF you really think people are ripping your stuff. Even then, they'll still find ways around it.
ken c wrote on 10/3/2005, 5:05 PM
Thanks again, as always -- good to know the quantities/break points...

I'll probably end up doing the traditional anti-copy techniques re saying the videos are only half of what they buy when they get a system, and include extras like monthly teleseminars and forum access etc for registered members only, as a deterrent, vs macrovision.... appreciate it much!

ken
B_JM wrote on 10/3/2005, 7:03 PM
Macrovision has nothing to do with "ripping" , only copying to VCR or other DVD recorder (and many now ignore the macrovision flag or it can be turned off)...

many dvd players can also be de-macrovisioned with a key code or come that way from the factory even ...

it is about 75cents a disk for 5000 disk spread out over a year .... but honestly it is waste of money ..

you might be thinking instead of CCS - which sort of prevents ripping by many commercial products ... the pricing on that is a little more complicated and your replicator can help you with that ....

you can also set the no copy, 1 copy flags on the dvd at the time of authoring ... not that it does really good for anything ..

note that CCS imaged and DLT backed up protected authored products use a different image size block than normal .. also it is the stamping plant that adds the protection - you cant add it to dvd-r