a copy-protected DVD

At seeing of this disc picture, what do you think? Do you think it’s a disc drilled with two holes, or the photo was handled to look like this? Or is it just a defective disc?

I have just found this picture in a forum. According to the one who posted the picture, the two marks are not two holes (though they look like so in the picture), but two spots pressed on it and this is a copy protection scheme called Becker hole method to make his DVD drive not play it, so he was seeking for help to by-pass it so that he could rip the DVD to the hard drive.

How amazing this copy protection scheme is! It makes the DVD only be read by DVD players but not by DVD writers. That means old DVD drives that only reads DVD can read this DVD, but if the drive is a recorder, it doesn´t read it and just keeps blinking.

I have never seen such a copy-protected DVD and I’m not sure if there is a good way to back up the DVD. Perhaps it can be copied by using a “capture card” to capture the video from the output jacks of the DVD player so long as it can be played by a DVD player.

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