How to protect your own DVD’s from piracy

With the popularity of digital camcorder, many people choose to burn their video recording to DVD for long-time preservation. For the DVD’s which contain their privacy data, they want to add copy protection to them to protect them from being stolen or ripped. And they hope to have their own DVDs encrypted like Hollywood DVDs, but it will be very difficult, because Hollywood DVD’s are protected by a technology called Content Scrambling System (CSS), which restricts playback of the disc on authorized devices, and the necessary CSS license is prohibitively expensive for most consumers.

So, how to protect your own DVDs within your power? In this article, I will tell you three workable method to solve the problem.

Method1. You can search and read the terms of copyright protection of your country, or consult a copyright lawyer, and then make a copyright notice for your own video and put the notice on the beginning of the video.

Method2. If the purpose of making a DVD is preservation, not to play, I advise you to compress the files on your computer as a RAR file using WinRAR and require a password for it be opened again. This method will make your data contained on DVD very safe when the DVD is stolen by other, unless he (she) is a hacker.

Method3. If you think the videos are very imported for you, you can purchase some of the DRM technology that are embedded in many commercial DVD’s. I know a commo
DRM technology called Macrovision but it is cracked by a DVD ripping software, and there are many tutorial about ripping DVD to MP4 etc. on Mac or PC on the net.

I make a google search and find three copy protection software you can try, they are PTP Protect Work, Web Tool Master and Cryp Key. And they are all very easy to use. The following are the steps: 1) Download and install the application to your computer; 2) Open up the application and insert your own DVD into the computer’s optical drive; 3) Press on the “Wizard”/”Browse” in the opened application and choose your DVD from your computer drive and click “Open”; 4) Click on the “Protect” and the application will encrypt your DVD automatically.

Finally, I know the fourth method to protect your own DVD but I am not sure if it work on the self-made DVDs. This is the region code protection. When you use this method, you need to ensure the DVD creation software has the capability to add region coding (region 1 and region 2) to the DVD.

Note: Region encoding is like TV system. It is divided into region 1 and region 2, similar to PAL and NTSC for TV system. Region 1 DVD can only be viewed in North America and Region 2 DVD is for Europe.

Okay, that’s it. Hope you can stop the data contained in your own DVDs being used by unauthorized people by using the methods I provide above.