The Mac is not playing DVDS but why?

Any reason why the imac is not playing DVDs  (movies) . I have older DVDS that will play but anything recent that I borrow from my local library it spits it out.

As I said, I am not 100% sure, but it could be - if you have a little DVD player, see if that same DVD plays there. I also noticed another way they protect themselves: I use Roxio Toast to burn my homemade movies; the other day I wanted another copy of one and set it up to copy/burn a second copy from a previously burned DVD. As it was reading the DVD, a popup showed with something like "legal content" and "click to copy" - so even the burn software has something built in to check if there is copyright protection or not.

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