copy protection

Hale wrote on 2/12/2006, 5:02 PM

I upgraded to DVD Architect 3 primarily for the "copy protection"
tools. I now find that it only applies flags to the CSS and Macrovision
for encryption elsewhere!! But what about the CGMS? I tried this to do
one copy generation, but had no problem doing copies from that copy. Is it possible to do any copy protection from DVDA3 ? Thanks
for any replies.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2006, 7:36 PM

Copy Protection 1

Copy Protection 2

You'll find many other posts if you do a search. Bottom line: No way to copy protect without doing replication (which is what the DVDA feature is for) and that will cost you lots of $$, both for the Macrovision, and for the replication fees. Not DVDA's fault; that's the way DVDs work.

Dach wrote on 2/12/2006, 7:37 PM

DVDA3 provides the option to add the flags as you mentioned, but they will only take affect when using a replication house. (making stamped copies). To my knowledge there is no way to protect burned media.

Over course for the person who really wants to... its easy to break the copy protection on the replicated discs.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/12/2006, 7:40 PM

nope. that's all for the duplicatior house.

sghoughton2 wrote on 2/15/2006, 5:41 AM

What is the point of DVD copy protection these days? Its been so thoroughly negated that I cant imagine wanting to included it. Not 30 seconds on google will find you everything you need - and is presented to the end use in a way that I'm quite sure most arent even aware that they're circumventing copy protection.

Seems like a waste of time to me.

steve

Dach wrote on 2/15/2006, 1:36 PM

I agree that it is very easy to work around protected media. At the same time and this is strictly from a business point of view... if we don't apply available copy protection and someone does break the law and copy our work we can't prove that they consciously knew what they were doing.