so others can't make copies easily

[KarateLois]

I am creating a presentation for my company and they want me burn copies at home to distribute to attendees, but they do not want the attendees to be able to easily make copies of the CD because they want people to have to attend to get the CD. Is there a way, on a home system, to burn copy protection onto a CD? Thanks.

 

[Mich]

There are several vendors offering this type of product. Check out these sites,

http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=65&google=copyprotect

http://www.sonydadc.com/americas/prod.newtech.key2data.go

-If it ain't broke, break it and make it better.

 

[garebo]

I wonder if there is any freeware out there that does the job?


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[jrbarnett]

No point. Even if they can't duplicate the CD directly without error, if they can read the files off the CD, they can copy them to a hard drive and then burn them to another CD.

John

 

[garebo]

Silly of me to ask as all kinds of software use all kinds of tricks, all kinds of ways to stop people from burning illegal copies and all that gets broken one way or another and people can find a way to copy just about anything, maybe even anything 100%.
So there really isnt a way, free or otherwise i quess, least not one that will work.
But there would be ways to discourage casual attempts to replicate, enough to discourage maybe 90% of users.
I guess thats what you are looking for and what Mich has come up with?

Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Mich]

That is where is was heading with it. As always, "If there's a will, there's a way." If someone really wants to copy Lois' presentation then they will do it. However, I know I certainly wouldn't waste my time on something like that.

(No offense, Lois. I'm sure it's a super presentation, but IF I'm going to hack/break into something I want it to be worth a bit more.)

-If it ain't broke, break it and make it better.

 

[bcastner]

I used the following, with its feature 'Media from a URL!" to solve a similar problem:

http://www.pfcmedia.com/

This is not copy protection, it just places outside of the CD some of the content that was desired to be protected.

Then you verify "authentic" users at the webserver.