i have copyed my holiday footage on to dvd and friends want to see it is there a way i can copyright it or something to stop them copying it i know they only have nero on there pc
As far as I know you cannot copyright your own home made movies, I could be wrong but I have never heard of being able to do that. Why not invite your friends over for a meal and then watch your holiday footage while eating/after, that way it stays in your possesion.
Considering Sony, Macrovision and a host of others can't seem to stop folks from copying their releases, it's not very likely that you will be able to either. As far as legally copyrighting your material, you might just insert a slide in the beginning that says "Copyright 2006 nnjsafc, You are not to copy this material without express written permission."
i don't believe that there is, and infact if you do find a way, then all your friends need to do is get a decrypter and circumnavigate your protection. Anything that is copyrighted can be uncopyrighted. Hopefully your friends don't find the free stuff or download a trial version. That is only if you can copyright it.
You can't... I have never come across a disc I couldn't copy... Although Resident Evil 2 took me a few days.. I riped it.
I have a home movie that came from click camera and it will not copy. I have anydvd, decrypter and shrink and none of them work. Any reason why they will not copy a home made dvd from click?
@bildar76 Can you tell us what kind of file it is (ie.. mpg, avi, flv etc...) It probably just needs to be converted.
Hi everyone, Do a google for CPRM. COPY PROTECTION FOR RECORDABLE MEDIA. Some home dvd recorders put this protection on ANY dvd recorded on that machine. It doesn't matter if its a home movie or store bought. Its a hard protection to crack. I'm not saying this is what you are running into but it does exist. I have advised a few members on here about CPRM for those that record things like weddings as a business. You need to purchase a dvd recorder with that system but it does work as a way to copy protect home recordings. Just for your info. Jerry Here is one of the recorders that does this. LG6821W
what about adding your logo or watermark to a footage? people will be able to copy it from cd but the film will be watermarked and everybody will know that it was made by you
My first question would be WHY?.........if you think your neighbors are likely to copy your holiday vacation movies then they must be REALLY bored lol...2nd question, why would it matter if they did? Just curious to know
This question usually comes up from people that have a business for instance that record weddings for money onto dvd's. They want to sell as many copies of the wedding as possible. If the first dvd purchased can easily be copied, thats all they will probably sell is ONE copy. Thats why this is always asked. Jerry
@Jerry746 Lol, I know after shelling out the big bucks on two daughters wedding's I only got one DVD and the did the usual backup.
just info Make Your Own Copy Protected CD cd Here’s a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs. Passive protection exploits subtle differences between the way computers read CDs and the way ordinary CD players do. By changing the layout of data on the CD, it’s sometimes possible to confuse computers without affecting ordinary players — or so the theory goes. In practice, the distinction between computers and CD players is less precise. Older generations of CD copy protection, which relied entirely on passive protection, proved easy to copy in some computers and impossible to play on some CD players. For these reasons, copy protection vendors now use active protection — special software designed to block copying.[/color] Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection Thursday December 15, 2005 by J. Alex Halderman Here’s a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs. Passive protection exploits subtle differences between the way computers read CDs and the way ordinary CD players do. By changing the layout of data on the CD, it’s sometimes possible to confuse computers without affecting ordinary players — or so the theory goes. In practice, the distinction between computers and CD players is less precise. Older generations of CD copy protection, which relied entirely on passive protection, proved easy to copy in some computers and impossible to play on some CD players. For these reasons, copy protection vendors now use active protection — special software designed to block copying. Discs with XCP or Macrovision protection employ active protection in conjunction with a milder form of passive protection. You can create your own CD with exactly the same passive protection by following a straightforward five-step procedure. I’ll describe the procedure here, and then explain why it works. What you’ll need: * A computer running a recent version of Windows (instructions are Windows-specific; perhaps someone will write instructions for MacOS or Linux) * Nero, a popular CD burning application * CloneCD, an advanced disc duplication utility * Two blank recordable CDs Step 1: Burn a regular audio CD Start Nero Burning ROM and create a new Audio CD project. [View] Add the audio tracks that you want to include on your copy-protected disc. [View] When you’re ready to record, click the Burn button on the toolbar. In the Burn tab, make sure “Finalize disc” is unchecked. [View] Insert a blank CD and click Burn. Be careful not to infringe any copyrights! For loads of great music that you can copy legally, visit Creative Commons. Step 2: Add a data session to the CD Start another Nero compilation, this time selecting the “CD-ROM ISO” project type. In the Multisession tab, make sure “Start Multisession disc” is selected; and in the ISO tab, make sure Data Mode is set to “Mode 2 / XA”. [View] Add any files that you want to be accessible when the CD is used in a computer. You might include “bonus” content, such as album art and lyrics. [View] For a more professional effect, consider adding the installer for your favorite spyware application and creating an Autorun.inf file so it starts automatically. When you’re finished, click the Burn toolbar button. Insert the audio CD you created in Step 1, and click Burn. [View] Nero should warn you that the disc you’ve inserted is not empty; click Yes to add your data files as a second session. [View] At this point, you’ve created a CD that contains both audio tracks and data files. The data files you put on the CD should be visible in Windows Explorer (in My Computer, right click the CD icon and click Open) and the audio tracks should be rippable with your favorite audio player. To add passive copy protection, you’ll need to modify the layout of the data on the disc so that the audio tracks are more difficult to access. Step 3: Rip the CD as a CloneCD image file Make sure the CD you just created is still in the drive and start CloneCD. Click the “Read to Image File” button. Select your drive and click Next. Choose “Multimedia Audio CD” and click Next. [View] Select an easy to find location for the image file and click OK to begin ripping. Step 4: Modify the image file to add passive protection The CloneCD image you created in step 3 actually consists of three files with names ending in .CCD, .IMG, and .SUB. The .CCD file describes the layout of the tracks and sessions on the CD. You’ll edit this file to add the passive protection. Start Windows Notepad and open the .CCD file. Modifying the file by hand would be tedious, so I’ve created an online application to help. Copy the entire contents of the file to the clipboard and paste it into this form, then click Upload. Copy the output from the web page and paste it back into Notepad, replacing the original file contents. [View] Save the file and exit Notepad. Step 5: Burn the modified image to create a copy-protected CD Insert a blank CD and start CloneCD again. Click the “Write From Image File” button. Select the image file you modified in step 4 and click next. Select your CD recorder and click Next. Select “Multimedia Audio CD” and click OK to begin burning. [View] That’s it! You’ve created your very own copy-protected CD. Now it’s time to test your disc. If everything worked, the files from the data session will be visible from My Computer, but the audio tracks will not appear in Windows Media Player, iTunes, and most other mainstream music players. The CD should play correctly in standalone CD players. How it works. To see how this form of passive protection works, you can examine the layout of the CD you created. Start Nero and select Disc Info from the Recorder menu. You should see something like this: (The exact number of tracks you see will depend on how many songs you included.) Notice that the tracks are grouped into two sessions — essentially two independent CDs burned onto the same disc. Unprotected CDs that combine audio and data files contain audio tracks in the first session and a single data track in the second. The only difference in the passive protected CD you just created is that the second session contains two tracks instead of one. You added the extra track (shown in yellow) when you edited the disc image in step 4. This simple change makes the audio tracks invisible to most music player applications. It’s not clear why this works, but the most likely explanation is that the behavior is a quirk in the way the Windows CD audio driver handles discs with multiple sessions. For an added layer of protection, the extraneous track you added to the disc is only 31 frames long. (A frame is 1/75 of a second.) The CD standard requires that tracks be at least 150 frames long. This non-compliant track length will cause errors if you attempt to duplicate the disc with many CD drives and copying applications. Caveat emptor. Yes, your copy-protected CD is “industrial strength” — XCP and Macrovision employ exactly the same passive protection — but even the pros have their limitations. There are many well-known method for defeating this kind of passive protection, such as: * Enhanced software — Advanced CD ripping programs avoid the Windows CD audio driver altogether and communicate directly with the CD drive. Thus, programs such as EAC are able to rip the tracks without any difficulty. — Better CD copying applications, including Nero, support a recording mode called Disc-at-Once/96; this lets them create an exact duplicate of the protected disc even though the last track has an illegal length. * Other operating systems — The discs can be ripped with standard software on Macs and on Linux systems. These platforms don’t suffer from the limitation that causes ripping problems on Windows. * Magic markers — The famous magic marker trick involves carefully drawing around the outer edge of the CD. This blocks out the second session, allowing the disc to be ripped and copied just like an unprotected CD. And of course, at any time Microsoft could fix the Windows quirk that is the basis for this technique, rendering it completely ineffective. Despite these limitations, who wouldn’t enjoy finding a homemade copy-protected CD in their stocking? They’re a great way to spread holiday cheer while preventing anyone else from spreading it further. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=946
i dont no why but i copied a dvd(another copy not original) the other day and for some reason it made those lines that you see on swap magic discs but only one line. when i tried running the disk on my pc i didnt workb but when i run it on my sony dvd player it does. isnt this dvd protection? i dont know how i did it i thought i was just copying a dvd.
if you copy the dvd on memorex media they probably wont be able to copy it lol,it will be full of read errors
