Is it possible...

[Amazing001]

Hi All! Does anyone know of a way to make "non-burnable" dvds?

We will be selling dvd of church events for a fundraiser and i'm just trying to find a way to sell them w/o people making copies. Any ideas?

[[Director] Joseph B]

Other then asking nicely, I don't know of any way.

[Esoteric]

Figure that out and the entertainment industry will love you!

Mike

[stevegoad]

I think Sony got in trouble with CD's for that - adding trojans or something that when burned, infected the burners stuff.

So no.... no such luck.

[voyager529]

Adobe Encore and DVD workshop support CSS; using either of these if you have them will at least put you on par with commercial DVDs. knowledgeable people who were going to dupe your DVD won't have any trouble doing so, but that'd be the case whether they were CSS'd or not. Less knowledgeable people who were just going to use Roxio to burn a copy won't be able to, and that's about as good as you're going to get.

Joey

[tdangelo]

If you have the DVD's duplicated commercially (not in-house) at a professional dub facility they can encode copy protection onto the DVDs. Of course, all copy protection schemes can be defeated if someone has the knowledge of how to do it, and the will.

The problem is that professional dub facilities will likely be too expensive unless you are looking for a few thousand dubs.

- Tom D'Angelo
AMV

[Lucas]

Joey nailed this one.

Besides, there's always the analogue loophole.

[Amazing001]

Thanks everyone! going to see how Adobe works!

[thedvshow]

. A Content Scrambling System (CSS) is used to scramble the audio/video data on a DVD-Video disc. Some DVD authoring software like Sonic’s DVD Producer, Adobe Encore DVD and others have it built in.

2. If you want the copyright on your work to be observed, practically speaking, my best advice is to maintain a good relationship with your customers. Also use well-designed packaging, disc surface printing, cover art and inserts to support the idea that your original DVD is something of value to be respected.

3. A few technical tricks is to make ghost or un-referenced files on a DVD - all you have to do is import the mpeg2 file into your DVD authoring program and add it to the project but don’t point anything to it - add random dummy files making it much harder for those who use IFO editors to see which program is the actual presentation. Import a blank 720×480 .bmp and make it act as if it’s a movie - but make them unreferenced.

[Pastor Ryan]

Sell them already broken in half?