Best CD and DVD Duplication encryption and costs???...

24.01.2010 | Comments open

Three things:

On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Dan Spiess wrote:

> How about authoring and replicating on DVD-9?

Seems like a reasonable suggestion, as DVD-9 replication isn’t much
more than DVD-5 these days....

> Personally, I find the whole exercise a waste of time. Anyone who
> really wants to hack a DVD will find a way.
> I think pricing the disc at a fair and reasonable rate is perhaps
> the best way to prevent the casual hacker from stealing the content.

Sorry, but since when does the thief determine how I should price my
product?  There are plenty of content-holders that have valuable
information that only a small niche of the marketplace will find
useful (like someone that’s only pressing 2000 units....

), and they
have to get a moderately high price for their content, in comparison
with a Hollywood title, in order to get a reasonable ROI.  If people
aren’t willing to pay $15-$20 for a Hollywood title, how can these
small producers expect to price their products at what a thief thinks
is a “fair and reasonable rate”?  They may need to many times more
than a Hollywood title in order to just break even.

Lastly, I know that there are other solutions than CSS that will
provide enough of a “nuisance factor” to keep the casual hacker out.
I don’t know the ins or outs of any of them, so I can’t make a
recommendation (Macrovision’s RipGuard, etc.) nor do I know the price.

LD

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