Can someone give me some names of "add on copy protection" software suitable for my home made movies, concerts that I need to lend to some groups of people BUT DON'T WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO COPY MY DVD-R OR cd-R. tHANK YOU. (tHESE people don't know anything about being able to break the protection etc etc by the way)
Basically, there is nothing you can do for CDs, and it would be expensive for your DVDs and it would be easy to break.
For DVDs you'd need a special authoring drive, authoring DVD-Rs, and a CSS license. All that is expensive.
The only thing that might reasonably work is encrypting everything on your CDs or DVDs with GNUpg or with one of thbe various "copy protection" prgrams available on the net, but that'll render your CDs and DVDs unrealable by players. They all do basically the same thing - encrypt the files and require the recipient of your CDs or DVSs to decrypt them on their computer in order to play them back. Not only would few consumers tolerate this inconvience (assuming they had a computer and knew to do this), but you cannot advertise your products as being music CDs or Video DVDs and must carefully inform your customers what is necessary to use your material.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
