how to make protected cd....

[amysiko]

hi,...how can i make protected CDs or DVDs??i dont want to make copy for the protected CDs but i want to create protected CDs where the user can read the data on the CDs, but cannot copy them and anything that equivalent......which sosfware should i used??..that all...thx:p

[Paul Komski]

Copying data is going to very hard to prevent. If you can get the text on the screen you can even print screen and use OCR to get it back into text.

You can protect the text in programs such as Adobe's pdf files such that the text cant be directly copied so I would look to the types of file that might be created and used rather than trying to protect the disk as a whole.

[amysiko]

Paul Komski:=You can protect the text in programs such as Adobe's pdf files such that the text cant be directly copied so I would look to the types of file that might be created and used rather than trying to protect the disk as a whole.

i want to protect video files....:p

[Paul Komski]

You can use software such as http://www.sharewareconnection.com/cdshield-se.htm or google for CD-Potection Software (http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22cd-protection%22+software&spell=1) or similar and attempt to prevent copying and ripping. It will, I suspect, be a thankless task against any determined or even many novice hackers.

[HomeSA]

I hang around a forum where there are a number professional DVD creators. This subject comes up frequently and the consensus over there is the same as Paul said. Don't bother protecting DVDs from getting copied. There is always a way.