Posted by ushere on 01/10/26 11:42

"peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Ritz" <ritz@mordor.net> wrote in message news:BesMf.294$6V.46@fe09.lga...
>>I would like to distribute a DVD. I don't mind if people copy it and
>>re-distribute it, but I want to make a reasonable attempt at keeping
>>casual users from *changing* the DVD's content and redistributing the
>>changed result. I realize that this probably wouldn't deter a technically
>>savvy or determined person.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> The other day I put a dvd in my computer, normally the drive would spin up
> and spin down after a few seconds. But this time, it just spin and spin
> without ever becoming ready. The only way to make it spin down is to
> remove the dvd.
>
> Turns out there is a deep scratch in the middle of the dvd. Somehow, this
> is preventing the dvd drive from reading some essential info (e.g. the
> name of the dvd), so it just keeps retrying.
>
> Interestingly, this dvd plays fine in a dvd player except for a few
> minutes of color blocks.
>
> If you could master a dvd and scratch it the right way, it would be damn
> hard to copy.
>

873 disks later and i still can't find the right place to scratch one.

any suggestions?

leslie

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