DVD Encryption Software

[soper87]

My fiancee's dad records rugby matches for his son's team and is after some software to encrypt the DVD's that he produces to stop people from copying them. The club use the DVD's as a small revenue generator and some people appear to have noticed the DVD's are encrypted so they can be freely copied. Anybody know of any freeware or relatively cheap software that would the job?

Cheers
Chris

[ohgod]

i really don't think you'll be stopping anyone that way. you'll spend a bunch of money buying the software and time setting this up and people will still find around it in seconds.


actually... i'm amazed there is a piracy problem on homemade sports dvd's O_o


anyway... if the money is that important to the team you might want to find another medium of distribution. an ad supported page or a subscription based site through which the videos would be disseminated would be more effective.


... or you could just put em up on youtube and let everyone have at it.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Ulead DVD Workshop might be able to do this. Its unclear from its "features" page. It says it can add CSS encryption to DLT output but it doesn't say if that output can be put onto a dvd-r.

[AlexV]

As ohgod said, yes you can do it, but if companies like Sony can't stop DVDs piracy, I highly doubt encrypting your DVDs will stop anyone from copying you DVDs unfortunatly. Most people that copy DVDs know programs that decrypt 99% of the discs on the market...

[oracleguy]

As ohgod said, yes you can do it, but if companies like Sony can't stop DVDs piracy, I highly doubt encrypting your DVDs will stop anyone from copying you DVDs unfortunatly. Most people that copy DVDs know programs that decrypt 99% of the discs on the market...

Though it depends what kind of piracy. If the people copying the OP's DVD aren't very tech savvy and just hitting "copy dvd" in their burning software, it might work.

If adding the encryption won't cost very much, you can try it but as others have said, don't be surprised when it doesn't stop people.

[AlexV]

Yeah but you really don't need to be tech savy to decrypt 99% of the DVDs on the market. It's as simple as to run an application, wait for the OK signal (2-3 secs) and use any DVD copy software as you do usually but now it will be unencrypted and region 0.

I agree, use it (encryption) if it's cheap and easy to use, but really don't rely on it...