Set Copy Protect?

Any idea how I can turn ON copy protection for a Quicktime file? There used to be a utility that did this, but what I've found doesn't seem to work with OS 10.5 (or Intel procs?). I also haven't found anything helpful in the xcode tools.
The QT no copy bit would be fine. DRM sounds interesting too. Really, just how to go about enabling that?
thanks
it really isn't necessary to point out that copy protection can be bypassed. My search here indicated that many times over.

There is no "copy protection" available in QuickTime files. Best you can do is to make them "un-editable" via AppleScript. Those that get a copy of your QuickTime .mov file can only view it. They can't export or edit it.
There are pricey applications that can use the "Media Key" (password) feature of QuickTime:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special -8.html
The link above shows some other methods for making it difficult for viewers to "steal" your QuickTime files.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/F/index.html
One of my QuickTime files that is saved as "un-editable". It also uses a "skin" track so viewers couldn't use screen capture software to make a copy.

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Copy protecting PDF files

I know that complete copy protection of a PDFs is not possible--at least that is what I have read. But can someone tell me why this shouldn't work: I create my document in InDesign. The layer I want to protect (the data I sell) is the bottom layer. I then add a second "invisible" layer that is a "button" and put it on top.
In the trial version I set up, the button-layer, when clicked, takes me to a page I created that tells me that copying is not allowed. Seemed to work. But not being much of a PDF person, I am not sure how effective this is (read: how easy would it be for a person to get to the bottom (data) layer if they really tried.)
The reason for the security is that my document will be sold to subscribers as a PDF. Much of the data in it comes from sources who would not be too happy about their data going any further than the intended reciepent.
If I can get the copy problem solved (to a reasonable degree) I will need to get to work on finding out the best way to prevent (or at least make difficult) further distribution of the document!

I played around with watermarks a few days ago. And I still might incorporate them when the time comes. What my main problem is, is that the companies that provide me with the data that goes in to the final PDF needs to be as copy-proof as possible, otherwise they will stop selling me their data.
So I am trying to come up with a method that would really require subscribers to my magazine to go out of their way to have to copy the data (which are mostly tables made in Excel spreadsheets). My suppliers haven't minded (too much) that up to now I have have been publishing their info in our printed magazine. They know people can scan the data from there. They just don't want it to be made available in a format where it can be easily "stolen" and distribued further electronically. I pay them a lot for their data and I am not their only customer. If it gets too easy for people to take the data from me, they will loose other customers.
I will keep trying different techniques.

HT1473 It seems like many commercial music CDs won't import into iTunes (copy protection?), so you can only play them from the disc, not your other devices. Am I missing something?

More and more commercial music CDs won't seem to import into iTunes - they just spin, falter, and spit out. I would think I had a setting wrong except older CDs load with no problem. I'm guessing there's copy protection on the newer ones, which seems unfair if you want to, say, buy a CD that has bonus material not available via iTunes (and then have to buy the regular material again on iTunes). Is there a way around this? An easy fix so I can keep buying CDs when I want to? I know it's a technology that's on the way out, but it's not gone yet.

Audio CD copy protection is relatively rare. I doubt its use is on the increase as it would be just one more nail in CD's coffin. On the few occasions I've bought CDs that won't rip I've gone straight back to the store for a refund. If the drive is attempting to read at max. speed it might help to force it to read slower (if indeed you have that as an option) and it may help to switch the error correction mode.
tt2

Changing aspect ratio of copy protected videos?

I am attempting to watch a widescreen TV show I purchased through the iTunes store on my LG plasma screen. My usual setup is a digital video out and into the plasma using VGA. The screen in this mode only gives me two aspect ratios to choose from: 16:9 or 4:3. In 16:9 mode the image appears streched and in 4:3 mode I have black margins an boths sides of the screen. When I watch a widescreen video in 16:9 it is streched with margins at the top and botton and in 4:3 mode I have now margins left and right and top and botton. I therefore usually change the aspect ratio in Quicktime so that it displays correctly in 16:9 format on the plasma. Unfortunately the new TV shows in the store are not just copy protected but I now cannot even change the aspect ratio of a video anymore under "movie properties". So the only option I have is to use the S-video output of my old Powerbook and connect to the composite input of the plasma. While this gives me many more aspect ratio options (intrinsic to the design of the plasma) the picture quality is poor. So how can I solve this? I do not want to purchase Apple TV. I have everything hardwired and do not want to change that. I understand that the files need to be copy protected. However, Apple should enable me to change the aspect ratio of a video to be able to view movies at high resolution and without a distorted picture. Any idea how to solve this?

Hi Sameer,
Thanks for your note, but the issue a bit different. Clicking the "fit page" and "fit width" allows you to change the zoom on the document, but the viewing area within the pod remains at a fixed ratio. So the document (unless the pod size is set at the same ratio) never fills the entire pod. Is this clear? I've added some screen shots to show what I mean more clearly.
As you can see, no matter what the zoom level is on the PDF (or if it's to fit width as the above screen shot), it's constrained proportionally (as I mentioned, I think it's at 4:3). Ideally, I'd like to get the PDF so it can fill the entire pod and zoom in and out. Is this possible with Connect?
Thanks! Appreciate your help.
Jonathan
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Copy Protection for home movies

I have a small video recording business. I taped a ballet recital and will sell the videos to the parents. I would like to know if there is a way that I can copy protect these so they can not make copies of them.
thanks

And as Sue has already pointed out, if any of us can easily download the software to rip a commercial DVD to our computers that have millions of industry dollars behind the copy protection techniques on them, what makes you think that your home produced DVDs would be any safer?
Usually the best thing to do is get in the mind set that you are providing a service (capturing a moment in time) and an initial product (that moment presented on a DVD with nice menus and such), but you are not a production house that makes their money off number of units moved. My guess is for something like a ballet recital, the parents are not all going to get together and buy a single copy and then make copies among themselves. Instead they will likely all buy their own copy and any additional copies they make would be sent to grandparents and things like that. And if you somehow made it uncopyable, then likely they would not come back to you to purchase additional copies but either not send a copy to Grandma or just dub a version to video tape.
In other words, I think in these small business situations, the initial buyers are likely to buy anyway and the subsequent copies wanted wouldn't be through you anyway. So you are basically trying to protect against something that isn't going to affect you anyway.
Just my opinion as a parent who has bought DVDs of various kids things from the "pros" who put them together (e.g. cheerleading competitions, etc.) but would never buy additional copies from those same people at the same price (I consider the price I paid to be for the service, not the actual copy).
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Copy Protect when I try and create a DVD

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Help!

Really not sure about this, but I doubt it's anything to do with FCE. Is it some copy protection built into the DVD recorder? I.e to stop you copying DVDs. Does the DVD Recorder normally work with this jacks? Is there any other way to connect to the recorder?

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DVD +Copyright/copy protection

I am a sports videographer. I use Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to edit and burn game dvds for my customers. My customers are telling me that they are unable to take clips off my dvds to create highlight dvds or video files to send to college coaches on the internet because my dvds are somehow "copyright protected" or copymaking proof signal embedded or whatever the technical term is for what is keeping them from achieving their project. I am not wittingly clicking on any feature to make this happen on purpose. I tried to find the problem and solution in the manual but could not find anything. I hope I am describing my dilemma correctly. Is there a way to disengage this feature so that my customers can do anything they want with the footage on the dvds I make for them? Thank you for your help.
TMR

Welcome to the forum.
As ATR states, PrE cannot create a DVD-Video with Copy Protection. No burned DVD-Video can have Copy Protection, as such, but only replicated DVD's, and PrE is not capable of producing such material, even if one is going to a replication house. That is not the issue here.
Now, are you providing the clients with DVD-Video (with the VIDEO_TS folder structure, to be played on a computer with DVD software, or from a set-top DVD player hooked to a TV), or are you providing DVD-Data discs, where you are just Copying the AV files to a DVD disc, for distribution? The discs would look the same, but have different folder structures burned onto them.
How are your clients trying to extract the files? With a DVD-Video, the media files will be in a VOB container, and those might need to be ripped from the DVD-Video, to be used. PrE can do that ripping, providing that the DVD-Video is 100% DVD-compatible. The VOB's created by PrE should be 100% DVD-compatible. Not all NLE (Non Linear Editor) programs CAN Import and work with VOB's. In those cases, other software is needed to rip the MPEG-2 DVD AV files from the VOB containers, to Import and edit those. This might mean an additional step for the clients, but that will depend on the software that they have access to, and might differ, client to client.
As a test, though limited to PrE, I would take one of your DVD's, Copy the VIDEO_TS folder to an internal HDD, then Open a New Project in PrE (NTSC, or PAL DV would be the desired Project Preset, and either Standard 4:3, or Widescreen 16:9, depending on which you shot), and then Import the VOB's into that Project. Do you get any errors? Remember, that will ONLY tell you, if you have created the VOB's, such that PrE can Import those. Depending on the clients' software, they might, or might not be able to use the VOB's directly.
Good luck, and sorry to add more questions to ATR's, but the answers to all, might tell the story.
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DVD Copy protection

Hi All,
I am building a dvd of a get-together party, and I don't want others to make copies of it.
Does Encose CS5 have any feature to prevent dvds from being copied / duplicated?
Please advise. Thanks.
Shiva

To add a bit... (my general understanding... I don't do replication)
For replication (creation of a "glass master" which is used to "press" discs, not burn with a laser) you send a tape or special kind of DVD to the replication house... after telling Encore to set the protection "flag" in your output, which creates a different kind of "incomplete" output file
When the replication house receives your "flagged/incomplete" file, they add the copy protection "piece" to make a "complete" file and then use that file to create the glass master
That copy protection will last just about 117 seconds... the time it takes someone to use Google to find and then download a program to break the protection... maybe 2 or 3 minutes if the person has a slow internet connection
All in all... not worth the effort

Basic copy protection?

How can I add some basic copy protection to my published
captivate files?
I don't really know what techniques are available for this.
Can I have the flash file prevent itself from playing if not
downloaded from or connected to the website? Can I have it check a
cookie? Is there some basic way of putting flash on the html page
that prevents users from being able to link to it directly or copy
it? Is there a way to prevent caching?
Are there any down-sides to this?
Thanks in advance,
Ari

OK, now I have this working AFAIK.
Can anyone see a way for users to get around this?
I'll paste the code below if anyone wants to implement this
in their own projects.
jbradley88 was right about the _root reference being needed.
quote:
You might try appending _root. to all references and see if
that helps (as in _root._url and _root.getURL and
_root.unloadMovie)
He was also right about the need for using
unloadmovie instead of geturl. It I use geturl, a user can download
the swf file and play it back locally b/c they can ignore the
security warning. If I use _root.unloadmovie() then the movie
unloads even if downloaded and played back locally.
Also, I was using "FALSE" and "TRUE" as boolean values for
variables before and it didn't work. Seems flash wants them in
lowercase instead.
I just replaced the actionscript in the preloader that
shipped with Captivate with this code:
//Check to see that it is playing from mywebsite.com domain
//just set the url to your domain
//The localURL's are for allowing the movie to be previewed
on the local machine it was made on
//just set the variables to reflect your folder structure
okToPlay = false;
siteURL = "
http://www.mywebsite.com";
siteURL2 = "https://www.mywebsite.com";
localURL1 = "D:\\captivate working folder\\Published";
localURL2 = "file:///D:/captivate working folder/Published";
localURL3 =
"file:///D:/captivate%20working%20folder/Published";
if ((_root._url.substr(0,siteURL.length) == siteURL) ||
(_root._url.substr(0,siteURL2.length) == siteURL2) ||
(_root._url.substr(0,localURL1.length) == localURL1) ||
(_root._url.substr(0,localURL2.length) == localURL2) ||
(_root._url.substr(0,localURL3.length) == localURL3))
okToPlay = true;
if (okToPlay == false)
_root.unloadMovie();
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size of the movie
function initialize(movieWidth:Number, movieHeight:Number)
function onProgress(loadedBytes:Number,totalBytes:Number){
var percentDone:Number = Math.round((loadedBytes /
totalBytes) * 100);
//Load 20% before starting movie.
if(percentDone > 20)
this.done = true;
percent_txt = percentDone+"%";}
function isDone():Boolean{
//by default the preloader will show until all frames are
loaded
//this function can override this bahavior
if(this.done)
return true;
else
return false;}
Now, AFAIK, when I publish Captivate files using this
preloader they'll only run from my domain or from the local machine
they were edited on (for previewing).
Thanks for the help,
Ari

DVD Copy Protection without CSS

Is it possible for DVDSP4 to put any copy protection on a burned disc without using CSS?
What happens if you enable copyright management, set it for no copy permitted, but don't click the CSS box. Does that do anything at all?
For example, a client calls and needs 10 copies of a disc and they want it copy protected. Is there a way to do this on my MacPro, as opposed to enabling CSS and sending it off to be replicated?
Thanks,
Chris

I am wondering why DVDSP allows you to turn copy management on, and select "no copying permitted" and doesn't require you to turn on CSS. If CSS was the only way to copy protect, I would think there wouldn't be on/off toggle box for it. Once you selected "no copying permitted" CSS would automatically be enabled.
When I burn the DVD, in the log, it says something like my device "cannot work with copy generation management."
This makes me believe, that with the right burner, although it may be basic, there is a way to copy protect a burned DVD without using CSS.
Maybe I'm dreaming.

Copy Protected DVD's?

We use Final Cut Express and iDVD to create event DVD's, however, we have had some people make duplicates of our work, inhibiting sales.
Anything we can do to make the DVD's copy-protected? Any other ideas?

DVD Copy-protect
Hi
No there is non.
The most common solution is to put a loggo that stays on the full movie.
eg. Copyrighted. Or "Made by " etc.
Not even if You buy FinalCut Studio and get DVD-Studio Pro. You will not get this.
The Copy-protection in DVD-Studio Pro is just a falg set to allert DVD-producers
to make this in DVD-burning Companies.
There is such protections to Commersial materials and to astronomical costs.
And one can figure to what need, when there are no really secure Copy-protection.
What also is possibly is to apply some uniqe-ness to each DVD, than log who got which one
then if an illegal copy can be obtained it can be traced back to whom let it to be copied.
One can only plead to respect the Copyrights
Yours Bengt W

Copy-protected apps and databases

How can I unlock copy-protected databases (eg calendar) in my Tungsten E2?
Post relates to: Tungsten E2

Do you have private records enabled?
If you do, you will need to unlock those records.
Open Security:
a.Go to Applications, and then select Prefs .
b. Select Security.
2Select the display option for private entries:
a. Select the Private Records pick list.
b. Select one of these options, and then select Done.
Show
Display private entries.
Mask
Cover entries with a gray mask; you can see the mask onscreen, but you
can't see the content of the entry.
Hide
Make private entries invisible.
You can also set the levelof privacy from within
certain applications. Open the Options menu,
select Security, and then select the level of privacy from the Privacy pick list.
See if that may help.
For reference purposes, click on the following link for the support page for your device on the kb.hpwebos.com webpage.
http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/na/tungsten/e2/unlocked/learn/page_en.html
There are links on the page to the user guide, troubleshooting, how to's, downloads, etc.

Copy Protected CDs and iTunes - long but important

Hey all, I didn't search all the posts but I haven't seen much mentioned about this topice so I thought I would bring it to your attention. If this is a repeat, I apologize.
The basic issue is this: some new CDs (especially from Sony) have a program on them that loads on the computer and will only allow you to load the songs as WMA files. This happened to me when I bought a copy of Switchfoot's new cd. It says right on the back that it will only work with Media Player but hey, I wasn't paying attention. Apparently this is not an issue is you are using a Mac.
Anyhow, you cannot load these CDs into iTunes and therefore cannot load them onto your iPod. This has created a huge controvery over on the Sony boards and if you follow the link I will give you, you can see it. Switchfoot is a very popular band and a lot of people got hammered over this. I was lucky enough that my Christian store took the opened cd back after I explained the problem and I had to download it from the iTunes store. You lose a song this way but what can you do. I guess the new album by Cold Play is the same way but I am not a fan so I can't be sure.
If you follow the Sony posts, when you get to the 6th page (I think), one of the members of Switchfoot posted and gave us a few ways to get around this. If you have NEVER put one of these copy protected cds into your drive, you do not have the software on your computer yet. He describes a program you can download and then use it after you put the cd in the drive. If you have inserted one of the cds, the little program is hiding somewhere on the computer and that fix will not work.
You can copy it to Media Player, burn it to a cd, and then load it to iTunes. But.........here you are making copies of copies and are going to lose sound quality. How much and will it be noticable, I have no clue.
Someone on the board said Sony is aware of the uproar and will have a version of iTunes that will be able to import these cds sometime in November (it is actually Apple that is doing I would guess). It all started because Apple refuses to give some kind of code to the large labels so they made the copy protection so iTunes will not recognize the cd (no matter how many time you put it into your drive......believe me I tried over and over on Tuesday until I found the Sony boards by doing a Google).
If this is news to you all, I am glad. If a repeat, sorry but I wanted to make sure all iPod owners (especially those of us with PCs) to be aware of this. There is a small alert near the spine of the jewel case that says "Copy Protected" or something like that and then on the back on the bottom it talks about only being able to use in Media Player.
Some who pre-ordered the disk online did not get the cd with the protection and apparantly some got some copies in retail stores that didn't have it also. I looked at all 400 copies the Christian store I bought it from had and they were all protected. Switchfoot is a Christian rock band but have had tremendous success crossing over into the rock genre.
One last thing, I guess the Dual Disk version will work in iTunes., at least that was the latest I had read.
Here is the link to the Sony Board on this topic and if you all can't find the one post about how to get around this, let me know and I will find it and post it here for you.
http://forums1.sonymusic.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/716102313/m/1331071454/p/1
Good luck. I don't know how to make the links work on this board but you can copy/paste it into your browser window.
Hope this helps some of you,
Mike

After using Macs for a number of years at both school and work, I finally ordered an iMac G5 of my own. When the DualDiscs came out I bought a few because I wnated all the content I could get. Attempting to play them on my iMac at work however, proved problematic. The audio side would spin for a few seconds then eject. I was slightly annoyed, but settled for playing the DVD audio versions of the albums as I worked. In my car stereo, the audio would work, but any other player it would not.
When my personal iMac came, I expected the same problem- only the DVD side would play. Imagine my surprise when every DualDisc I attempted to rip (Switchfoot, Bruce Springsteen, Rob Thomas, Ben Folds, The Wallflowers, Oasis, David Gray) in iTunes was read and successfully ripped.
So I wonder this- is it as much a problem with older Superdrives not being able to read the thicker discs as anything else?
Or am I an anomaly

I am having problems opening a copy protected cd file

I am trying to open a CD which contains mainly PDF files and is copy protected but somehow it doesn't open and doesn't even appear anywhere on my computer. I have managed to access it through the Disk Utility and foun the CD on hidden folder volumes, but when I try to open the disk the folder inside it appears for a few seconds and disappears, as if the disk was blank. I suppose that it has to do with the copy protection, since the content appears to be in the disk.....If someone could please enlighten me on this subject I would appreciate very much, because I really need the files on this CD with kind of a hurry! Thank you!

On the Mac open System Preferences > iCloud. Deselect the box next to: Documents & Data then reselect it.
On the iPad tap Settings > iCloud
Switch Documents & Data off then back on.
Give iCloud a minute to re sync the data then try opening that document on either your Mac or iPad,

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