Easy DVD Burning

Burning copyright protected DVDs is possible given the appropriate DVD burning software and a little bit of knowledge of the basics of DVD copyright protection schemes. This article explains the basics of burning copy protected DVDs.

Commercially produced DVDs employ layers of copy protection that would prevent casual copying of DVDs. These schemes could be any or all of the following:

• Content Scramble System (CSS) which scrambles the data as they are ripped from a copyright-protected DVD
• Macrovision (Rovi) anti-ripping schemes such as RipGuard or Analog Copy Protection, which also prevents the ripping of data from a copyright protected DVD
• Regional Codes, which prevents a media from being played outside of the region it is marketed
• User Operations Prohibition (UOP), which takes away user-features, such as selection menus, chapters, or subtitle choices

Protection schemes generally prevents consumers to make duplicates of a copyrighted material by generating inferior or unusable copies, or at times outright prevents the media from being copied at the onset. You can still play protected DVDs , by the way without problem. Of all the copy protection schemes, CSS is the most prevalent as it is effective. Almost all commercially produced DVDs have CSS encoded, and these make them uncopyable by any popular DVD burning software, such as Nero.

To burn CSS protected DVDs, you need a DVD burning software that can bypass these protection schemes: CSS, Regional codes, Macrovision and UOP. A good example would be DVD neXt Copy neXt Tech, which has the algorithm that can bypass most restrictions of copy protected DVDs, letting you play protected DVDs in your iPod, iPhone, Apple TV or any devices you might have. With neXt Tech, you can rip protected DVDs, without hitch—no settings, no adjustments needed, it does all the bypassing in the background.

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