Can you burn a master through iDVD that can't be copied?

Periodically it would be helpful for me to be able to create a master that can't be copied on a duplicator. I've looked for, but not found a setting in iDVD that adds some kind of an anti-copy security to the burn. Is it there and I'm just missing it?
Doing it through iDVD would be the easiest, but if not, then what about creating a disk image, then burning through Disk Utility? Is there a way an anti-copy master burn there?
I don't know how to use DVD Studio Pro (yet), but does that allow for anti-copy master burns?
Thanks.

As stated above, if it's a burned dvd (as opposed to a commercially pressed dvd) then it ain't copy protected (ever).
Here's what apple says in their knowledge base (see question 12):
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26404?viewlocale=en_US#faq12
As suggested above FCS will indeed allow you to set copy protection flags but the burned Dvd itself is not protected. See the following links for DVDSP:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25523?viewlocale=en_US
Keep in mind that even adding CSS is no guarantee the content won't be copied.
My suggestion for burned dvd's like those created through iDvd is to make an AutoStart Movie at the very beginnging with the standard FBI Warning (essentially asking others to not copy the content). Which Bengt Wärleby stated already is only a plea for the viewer/s not to use your content illegally.
Not much more to do unless you're into spending the big bucks for mass duplication and adding CSS.
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