can i stop people from copying my cd audio?

Question

i have recorded my own music and placed it in audio on to a cd-r. i need to send some to people to listen to but i don't want them to be able to copy my cd to another or a hardrive etc. i only want them to play it. i do not want my music stolen

Answer 1

depends on the program you use to burn your cd but most of them have copy protection options...check the settings...and if you want to make sure your original music is not stolen, register it...i guess there must be a place where you can register intelectual property and in case you realize someone has stolen your song and is using it you'll have grounds for sueing

Answer 2

Impossible. Someone will be able to break it and if you use any copy protection measures it wouldn't play in standard players. The problem is that if you have technology to play something that technology can easily be modified to copy it. Digital rights management solutions have one inherent flaw. It is easily broken and it hurts the people who are honest.

Let me tell you a story. Have you ever had a DVD player that wouldn't play foreign DVDs? Thats because each region has it's own key. That key was broken and now theres software available on the internet to easily decrypt a DVD so you can reburn it to a DVD and play in any DVD player. CD-roms have some solutions as well, but every DRM solution I've seen has been broken. A simple version of this was to put some bad sectors on the CD-rom that would never be "read". When it tried to be copied word for word it would give CD copiers errors. This was easily overcome in software by simply skipping over those bad sectors.

CD-r disks are simply will not protect your information from copying. Digital rights management solutions, although some brilliantly conceived, can be broken in some fashion. If you're able to play some media, with enough technical skill you are always able to copy it.

Answer 3

You can set the permissions to read only, you can add Digital Rights Management software you can purchase over the internet; but ultimately if someone is determined there is usually a way round it.

But ultimately, as long as they are not copying and selling your music, it tends to work in your favour. It works as free advertising.
CD sales have actually gone up - thats probably because the music quality of a cd is better than that of an MP3.

Answer 4

To protect your full music, only record 2 minute samples onto a couple of disks and send one of and post the other back to yourself and never open it. This means that if your music is used by another artist after the date you sent it off, without your permission and if the matter reaches court, then the judge will open the one you posted to yourself. The post mark is enough proof of copyright in a court of law.

Answer 5

it would no longer be the participant despite the indisputable fact that the way the cd has been recorded. make constructive the placing once you reproduction a cd isn't set speedier than the cd is able to being written. i.e. If the cd is able to being copied at 4x the speed, make constructive your recorder isn't attempting to reproduction it at 8x the speed. If that doesn't artwork, your cd recorder might want to choose a driver replace. Have an fairly hi!!!

Answer 6

There are copy protection schemes that are available in the Internet.U can search for them in the Internet

Answer 7

You have to write again your CD.
Give permissions read-only (not able to copy).

Answer 8

thats funny....