Make flash drive read only with no copying

Welcome to the new world of selling content. As Mr. Wolsky says, once it is out in the wild, it is extremely difficult to protect your work.

What you can try to do is make the purchase so attractive that customers will choose to buy as opposed to steal.

You do this by making the purchase price low, offer a physical item for sale - DVD or Blu Ray (it is not only a copy of your content, it in itself is a "keepsake"), and also take a look at offering a protected streaming option such as:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/startselling

MtD

And to throw another monkey wrench into the mix, if the place where the script came from is one of the national clearinghouses that rents out scripts, copyright laws prohibit you from actually making a video of the event, and if you were caught making and selling it, you could be violating copyright laws and face fines. Just want to make sure you understand that. I've dealt with this in high school and community theater arenas.

TYou can't make it harder. You can spend thousands and it'll be cracked in days. If you don't, I'll crack it in minutes. I mean literally minutes. Every Blu-ray video is available as a torrent before it's released. There's is nothing you can do to a video in hardware distribution to make it both available and secret. That's why Apple and others have abandoned hardware for this and gone to password protected net delivery.

Okay, just wanted to make sure, although when we get scripts, it still does not allow us to do that, but then again, we rent the scripts, not purchase them. I was just trying to keep you out of hot water.

Tom is right, except that it doesn't take days to crack a copy. It can be done in seconds. Anything that can be played on a Mac can be copied directly with any screen capture software, even Quicktime X and for the audio, there's Soundflower (if using QTX.)

Your best protection:

©2015 by Production Name

and

WARNING

Any commercial use or duplication of this copyright

material without prior licensing is forbidden by federal law.

Violators may be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties.

(Title 17, United States Code, Section 501 and 506).

... and be prepared to sue... and mean it.

jfoppes wrote:

… can i format the flahs drive insuch a way a way that prevents copying?

technicallly, to playback you have to 'copy' content (from stick/disk/whatever to device) ....

So, the harder you make it to 'copy protect' your content, the more inconvenient it gets for your paying customers!

for example, on commercial DVDs I'm 'forced' to watch minutes of promos and 'legal advice', talking to me like I'm a 1st degree suspect 😟 No fun! And: When I like to watch/listen on diff. devices. again trouble to 'rip' it (anyone remembering the first slogan for iTunes? "Rip.Mix.Burn." Holy innocence ........... LOL

Forget the few copy-cats. Convince by quality (e.g. spelling 😉 ) .

Deliver an excellent product, perhaps bundled with some 'extras' (a nice designed box, with pics/t-shirt/memorabilia/…) And, hey - who copies a school-play???? 😝

jfoppes wrote:

this is why i don't use the apple forums very often everyone seems to have their own 2 sense but none has an answer or anything useful to say

Maybe if you are unhappy with the answers here, there is a search engine called Google, which when I searched for "Copy protect a flash drive", it returned leads such as this:

http://www.mediasupply.com/usbcopyprotection.html

Can't vouch for efficacy or value.

MtD

you can only export 480 p video on dvd

When I want higher resolution I simply burn a Blu-ray, (1080p).

and copy protected so it can't be distributed can i format

There is no such thing as copy protection. It does not exist. I would recommend putting a copyright notice on the physical material as well as on the beginning of your video.

for example, on commercial DVDs I'm 'forced' to watch minutes of promos and 'legal advice',

Always buy a DVD or Blu-ray player that has UOP ( User Operation Prohibited ) disabled. With these type of players the author of the disc cannot disable your remote control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_operation_prohibition

Ziatron wrote:

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Always buy a DVD or Blu-ray player that has UOP ( User Operation Prohibited ) disabled. …

Haha, in Germany? The only country in the wold, where people don't cross the road in the middle of a lonely´night, just because some red light is blinking....??! 😝

"Overriding", whatever, is verboten. 👿

Haha, in Germany? The only country in the wold, where people don't cross the road in the middle of a lonely´night, just because some red light is blinking.

You strike me as Apple used to say, "someone who is not fond of rules".

As someone who used to be involved with the space program I have the highest respect for Germany and Germans. However, you are right. Germans seem to have a overabundance he of rules, and regulations, and procedures. Germany even tells stores (shops) what time they must close!

Not too long ago I purchased a nixie clock made in Germany. The seller told me he cannot sell it in his own country! Due to the regulatory burdens, so he only sells outside of the EU. ( It runs on 12 V DC ). Anyway, all of these regulations are fine for big companies because they can hire the people and the lobbyists to deal with all the regulations. Unfortunately, it hurts the small business because it makes it hard for them to compete.

A while back I heard that the Mac Pro Tower (my favorite Mac) was banned in the EU because someone could stick their finger in the cooling fan (that is on the inside).

http://www.nixieclocks.de/english/

Not from within FCP X.

You might be interested in this overview.

Russ

IN this day and age it's pointless. Any high schooler can rip anything he or she wants or knows someone who will.