I purchased a copy of the Disney movie Honey I Shrank the Kids from Blockbuster. My kids are rough on original discs so I thought I'd copy it to ensure if they trashed it, I'd still have the original in good shape. The disk wouldn't copy with 1click DVD copy any AnyDVD running. It locked up the copy application mid-copy. I looked at the disc and there was a round scratch all the way around the middle of the disc. When I took it to Blockbuster to exchange, the clerk told me "This is the copy protection scheme. With some discs when someone tries to copy it, the original is destroyed and a perfect line burned into the original disc." So they gave me another one (which, by the way, copied fine) but I'm curious if anyone had ever heard of such a thing.
Okay. That's what I thought. It sounded pretty outlandish when the clerk said this but someone probably told her that and she is now repeating it as if it is the truth.
This person was trying to fill your head with bull s--t. If what they were saying was true why did they replace the movie. In Australia you are able to copy for your own use.
@baldy43, being an Aussie myself let me set you straight. You are allowed to Back Up your own personal discs, not rented ones, although garyjay did say he purchased the movie, quite legit.
the guy who told you that stuff is full of sh*t. The only thing that ever does this is old cassette players! haha
yeah, what a load of crap... the employess at best buy seem to have no real clue. they get bull sh!t info from corporate and then change what they read, every now and then you get one bb employee who knows a thing or two, but chances are they do it themselves and could care less who's doing what. when you play a movie in you pc, all its doing is reading only. when you install it in your hdd, thats all its doing, installing (files) there is no such thing that a disk has this capability, much less a burner creating a line on the disk. however, i have read about burned movies in cases from bb, having the lines you talk about, but not originals. they are pressed disks, and you cannot burn to them at all.......
The only experience i have had with 'burned lines/rings' was with some bad dvd-r media. Out of 100 discs, about half had a bad patch which was always on the same part of the disc, about 3/4 of the way out from the inside. You could not see these lines before burning but you knew when you had used a bad disc because the line would appear when burning was complete, and the movie would freeze at that point (about 3/4 of the way through the movie) I was just unlucky getting a bad batch of discs and my Drives or original discs were in no way to blame. Oh, and by the way, xbox 360 discs will have microscopic amounts of C4 built into the discs, and if you copy them the laser will ignite the C4 and blow you and your PC to hell!
@gear79 The original poster was talking about blockbusters rather than best buy -- however, you are also correct about best buy employees. BTW, love the elf in your sig.
opps, i meant block buster.......... happens all the time, even my wife gets confused.. thanks tsquare... phantom did it for me !
When you buy a dvdrecorder or dvd burner they will tell you, you can't copy factory made movies. So when BB or BB say anything you say it right back to em. You can copy movies?????
LOL... When she told me this line about copying DVD's destroying the original, I said "Oh, I knew you could copy CDs but you can copy DVDs too?"
The only time I have ever witnessed lines on a dvd - was more in bad hardware - ie: a portable dvd player. No matter if you played an original or a backed up copy - after playing it in some portable dvd players, they would ruin the disk by placing rings on them. But - as I said, this was a bad hardware issue with the portable dvd player itself, and the last time I saw something like that happen was over a year or two ago. (something with the laser) That was real stupid how they tried to trick you, but then decide to replace your copy *shaking head* Some of those employees take their jobs waaaay too seriously. ----------------------------------------- Laffin at chrisfunk about the c4 *LOL*
