Protecting images in slideshow from being copied

Hi, I am new to iDVD and would like to know....
Would a client be able to print from images that I have made into a slideshow using iDVD.
If this is possible how can I protect my images?
John

Hello John,
the short answer is: No.
There is no possibility in iDVD (or DVD Studio Pro,
for that matter) to effectively protect the contents
of a DVD. The industry has been trying for a long
time to protect CDs & DVDs, but there are a lot of
tools freely available on the Net that break these
protections, be that illegal or not.
What you can do is place a watermark (logo/© 2006 by
John) on your pics. This can be done in Photoshop or
iWatermark for example. The drawback is that you need
to place the watermark in a way that it doesn't
interfere with viewing, thus it would be easy to
simply cut the part.
Final thought: the "ripping" of a DVD rarely produces
good quality results, as the MPEG-2 encoded video is
not meant to be edited further. So your client might
not get the hi-res prints he/she expects.
hope this helps
mish
Thanks Mish. I will resort to using a watermark.
Could you advise on the resolution of jpegs to use for a slideshow?

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