I'm part of a small videography company and we want to distribute our
content more dynamically while also reducing costs to those who would
share our digital content.

I need several budget-oriented options for adding some sort of copy
protection to both my DVD Videos and digital media (video files).

I understand that no copy protection is fool-proof, but we just need
something to keep the average joe from sharing our content, thus
diminishing our profits.

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Request for Question Clarification by keystroke-ga on 12 Oct 2006 07:18 PDT

Hello drtrmiller,

There are not really any "budget-oriented" options for this type of
thing, any type of "diy" option. Any type of protection like this is
going to cost money. Would some professional options work for you as
an answer?

--keystroke-ga

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Clarification of Question by drtrmiller-ga on 12 Oct 2006 13:03 PDT

No, not really, as we do very low volume work (50 or less DVDs per
production).  Anything that had to do with the DVDs being sent off to
a processing facility and/or licensed and such is beyond the scope of
our operations.

Yeah Dvd Piracy is a big problem. Try RipGuard by Macrovision.
RipGuard makes it harder to copy DVDs due to its new anti-piracy
measures.
RipGuard Provides   
    * Complete DVD Protection
    * RipGuard Stops Ripping
    * RipGuard Works on Today's DVD Players and PCs
    * RipGuard is Workflow-Friendly

Go to there website for complete information

http://www.macrovision.com/products/activereach_dvd/ripguard/index.shtml

You can also get the pdf brochure here

http://www.macrovision.com/pdfs/RipGuardBrochure.pdf

and finally if you need more information you can contact them at

http://www.macrovision.com/company/locations/us/index.shtml.

hope this helps.

I'm thinking this for large scale producers.