Movie Encryptions.....?

ghn22 · #1 18th Jan 2008, 13:56

I recently started burning movies for friends and family and I am getting more requests. I am looking for a software that will allow me to encrypt (css) my dvd movies that I burned as to not allow anyone to copy/record/clone or do anything other than play the movie.

If anyone knows a software that may help, plz let me know.

**Cew27** · #2 18th Jan 2008, 15:00

are these homemade movies? or downloaded because downloading movies is illegal and is a taboo subject on these forums

**serverguy** · #3 18th Jan 2008, 15:04

Sounds to me as if this is pirating....

**evilfantasy** · #4 18th Jan 2008, 15:07

We don't allow the discussion of duplicating copywrited material here.

EDIT: Thread reopened. OP advises these are home movies.

**philthomas** · #5 18th Jan 2008, 18:46

There are authoring programs (not cheap) that will add copy protection, but any savvy person, with free software, would easily circumvent it, so it's not worth spending money on IMO.

Think about it, if the giant corps like Sony spend millions on copy protection and fail .... what hope have you got

**evilfantasy** · #6 18th Jan 2008, 18:52

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Originally Posted by philthomas

Think about it, if the giant corps like Sony spend millions on copy protection and fail .... what hope have you got

Good point!!!!

ghn22 · #7 18th Jan 2008, 19:05

understood, but I have gotten software from family "retail" like nero and I tried burning it so i can use at my house or w/e and it blocked me. So if there is something like that.

I also back up my hd sometimes and want to burn it a dvd/cd. keeping anyone from opening it would be a plus.

If there aren't any free programs then all well. Im cheap lol. thx for the info.

**philthomas** · #8 19th Jan 2008, 06:36

Software and Data are different and use completely different methods of protection, so you cannot compare with these.

Video is different and the only effective copy protection is industrial grade.
Macrovision was defeated years ago and the new Sony ARCOS protections have been equally useless.

To use the industrial solutions, you would need a DVD Factory, a licence from Sony and hundreds of thousands in orders, to even consider it.

The simple truth is, even if you did all that , the material could still be cracked, by a savvy user, so there really is no point.
As I said above : "if the giant corps like Sony spend millions on copy protection and still fail .... what hope have you got"