{"id":128,"date":"2012-10-25T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:32:23","slug":"using-dvd-9-dual-layer-disc-as-a-way-to-have-copy-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/using-dvd-9-dual-layer-disc-as-a-way-to-have-copy-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Using DVD-9 Dual Layer disc as a way to have copy protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we know CSS copy protection on DVD has been compromised soon after the method was announced. A Norwegian kid cracked the copy protection scheme in 1999. \u00a0Since then it is well known that if someone wants to copy a DVD there is always a way. \u00a0The only solution is to make it less convenient, and using DVD-9 is among one and the simplest one.<\/p>\n<p>The argument is that dual-layer DVD-R is more expensive and is not very convenient to copy. \u00a0Most disc copying software, including the famous NERO, is not very well equipped to do dual-layer copying. \u00a0The layer breakpoint is the linchpin. \u00a0Most software simply cannot figure out where the layer breakpoint should be and will do a simple fill-up of the first layer and then dump the remaining data to the second layer scheme. \u00a0Doing so will definitely create a coaster.<\/p>\n<p>Do consider using DVD-9 if you want to make\u00a0plagiarism more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know CSS copy protection on DVD has been compromised soon after the method was announced. A Norwegian kid cracked the copy protection scheme in 1999. \u00a0Since then it is well known that if someone wants to copy a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/using-dvd-9-dual-layer-disc-as-a-way-to-have-copy-protection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd-replication-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcyberian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}