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Hello Friends,

I want to lock my DVD so no one can copy it. So kindly suggest any method or program.

I want to Autorun DVD and it display html page which have all subject listed. When student click on subject they can watch a video created by me.

I want to protect this DVD so student can watch but can’t copy.

I tried Protect Burn content software but I have many problems like DVD is not autorun and vides display only in IE not in Chrome or FireFox.

Friends kindly give your suggestions.

Thank you.
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PIEBALDconsult 18-Mar-15 13:40pm    
Put a sticker on it saying, "please don't copy this disc".
Maciej Los 18-Mar-15 15:16pm    
:laugh:
My virtual 5!

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I want to lock my DVD so no one can copy it


Not possible. Every company that has tried to put content on any storage medium and has spent large amounts of money to copy protect the contents of those disks has failed miserably.

You are not going to be any different.


Think about it. What's the difference between opening the content file and reading the data to play it and reading the data to copy it? NONE! There is no difference at all, so how are you going to tell the difference between the two operations? You can't. It's that simple.
 
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Maciej Los 18-Mar-15 15:22pm    
The only way i know to secure data on DVD before copying it is to damage it. Unfortunately, read will not be available any longer ;)
Cheers, Maciej
PIEBALDconsult 18-Mar-15 15:30pm    
More than that; it's really just a bunch of bits, don't even think of then as "content".
Let's be logical. Why would you need to "lock" (copy-protect) your DVD? You would need it if you distributed some content free of charge. It's pretty obvious that you have make money on that. And yet, you want some solution free of charge. Note that if such solution worked, it would prevent obtaining a copy of this content directly, even for the people who would give you the solution for free. Doesn't it tell you that it's not very likely to work.

It's more likely that doing such tricks for getting money would itself require money? Really good amount of money. No money for that? But market mechanism for such things are very different that asking a solution free of charge. One of such mechanism is called "loan", another one — "investment", both are related to financial risks.

Moreover, when you invest money, the effect can be very limited. Strictly speaking, this is plain impossible — please see Solution 1 — but you can create some hassles for some of the users, so they may give up trying to copy the content. No protection can guarantee result, it can filter out only some of the users, more likely those who would not make extra copies of the DVD. And those people will be deprived of protection of their investment. People really need reserved copies of all content, because DVD can easily be damages. As to the real pirates, your protection won't be too serious hassle. But first, think if your content is valuable enough to protect it or to break it. The idea of PIEBALDconsult to put a sticker can work better. :-)

Nevertheless, some protection does exist and widely used, but for DVD video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Compact_Disc_and_DVD_copy_protection_schemes[^]

—SA
 
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