Hello, I work in a school and am looking to copy protect dvd's of the school choir to sell in the school shop. Does anyone know how i can do this? Thanks

in fact yes we know , but are you allowed to do that! .. I mean u need to ask permission u know for the copyright .. and if u want to sell it thats worst !

It is the school choir dvd to be sold to parents on behalf of the school, for the school, to raise money for a choir trip, so there are no copyright issues involved.

Go buy DVD Xcopy, it works great. Have the lambs stopped crying Clarice?

Why are you worried about copy protection? The purpose of the sale is charitable so anyone purchasing the DVD is a booster. If they copy it, so be it. How many folks have the knowhow to copy a DVD anyway. I think you are worrying needlessly. Copy protection is an iffy technology anyway. Too vigorious and the media can't be used as intended. This definately wouldn't sit well with your customer base.

Many millions have been spent on attempting to copy protect DVD's but the plain fact is that there is just no 100% way to do it. If someone is determined enough ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is copyable and if it's just music you have even less chance because, if all else fails, there is nothing whatsoever preventing playing and re-recording the content for burning back to DVD.

An appendix to kinel's post: Hollywood already came up with a new technology called Self-Destructing DVDs. I haven't read (THIS) entire article. But what I want to say here is that somewhere down the road, the software developers may adopt the same technology in a variety of ways. When this happen, copying DVDs will then be impossible. Remember the days of the 80-90s when you could return even opened software package for full refund. i_XpUser