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Add copy protection to a home made DVD? Possible?

xraydoc

xraydoc

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I have a few video files that I would like to distribute to a few people, but I would like to try and prevent casual copying. Is it possible to burn a home made DVD with DVD CCS copy protection on it without using something like Final Cut Studio?

I don't see a way to do it with iDVD or Toast 8.x. Any other suggestions? Does Toast 10 have this ability?
 
xraydoc said:
I have a few video files that I would like to distribute to a few people, but I would like to try and prevent casual copying. Is it possible to burn a home made DVD with DVD CCS copy protection on it without using something like Final Cut Studio?

I don't see a way to do it with iDVD or Toast 8.x. Any other suggestions? Does Toast 10 have this ability?
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The CSS will offer what is effectively no protection to your DVD. Even a casual user can easily break it; so if someone really wants to use the DVD for something beyond what you approve, they can do so very easily.

Also, I think you have to be a movie studio to even be able to put CSS onto the DVD. I'm not sure about that though.
 
xraydoc said:
I have a few video files that I would like to distribute to a few people, but I would like to try and prevent casual copying. Is it possible to burn a home made DVD with DVD CCS copy protection on it without using something like Final Cut Studio?

I don't see a way to do it with iDVD or Toast 8.x. Any other suggestions? Does Toast 10 have this ability?
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No. Not even Final Cut Studio has this ability. As far as I know in order to make use of this you need to get your disks pressed professionally.
 
Yeah, I know how easy it is to defeat CCS... I do it all the time.

But I suspect that the companies (Macrovision, etc.) that sell the copy protection encoding schemes charge a lot of money to license it.

I'm just surprised that since its become so easy/free to defeat that is hasn't become as easy/free to implement, either.
 
xraydoc said:
I have a few video files that I would like to distribute to a few people, but I would like to try and prevent casual copying. Is it possible to burn a home made DVD with DVD CCS copy protection on it without using something like Final Cut Studio?

I don't see a way to do it with iDVD or Toast 8.x. Any other suggestions? Does Toast 10 have this ability?
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Sadly enough the only Apple app i can think of that adds copy protection is DVD Studio Pro... which is part of the final cut studio... BUT i do believe Adobe's Encore will do exactly what DVD studio pro does, and it might have a 30 day demo (you'll have to register with Adobe).

Hope this helps.
 
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