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*bcn_246* · 31-05-2005

Ok, I made a new thread saying this, and asked it to be stickied as so many people ask this question somewhere, ah well, I will explain again.

At the moment there is NO usefull copy-protection you could have on a CD/DVD that would not be copied, even if you payed $$$$$ for a comercial protection it would still be copied with little problem. If you are making only a few copies then the most effective thing you can do is "watermarking", just create a file with the person you are giving the disc tos name in, like a .txt, then rename it to anything, that fits nicely with the other files, like a .cab or .dll or something. Once done, put it on the disc and then, if you get hold of a illegal copy of your disc, you can just drag the dll file into notepad, and see who copied it originally. If you tell people the disc is custom watermarked to them they are very unlikely to copy it.

Ben

31-05-2005	#6 (permalink)
bcn_246 Top Referrer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Posts: 3,520	Re: Looking for a way to copy protect my own CD/DVD Ok, I made a new thread saying this, and asked it to be stickied as so many people ask this question somewhere, ah well, I will explain again. At the moment there is NO usefull copy-protection you could have on a CD/DVD that would not be copied, even if you payed $$$$$ for a comercial protection it would still be copied with little problem. If you are making only a few copies then the most effective thing you can do is "watermarking", just create a file with the person you are giving the disc tos name in, like a .txt, then rename it to anything, that fits nicely with the other files, like a .cab or .dll or something. Once done, put it on the disc and then, if you get hold of a illegal copy of your disc, you can just drag the dll file into notepad, and see who copied it originally. If you tell people the disc is custom watermarked to them they are very unlikely to copy it. Ben __________________ Click HERE to join CDFreaks... do it or I will dead you.