UK-based 10th Planet has announced the first use of DVD Sequr Copy Protection on a replicated DVD, “Crudelli on Crime,” an independent documentary production by the martial arts expert and TV presenter Chris Crudelli.

The system has been used on high profile content in the US under the Fortium Technology brand, but has until now, not been applied to content outside of North America.

Chris felt that his content was too valuable to risk ending up on the Pirate Bay's of this world. His target audience is technically savvy and the usual mix of CSS and other system would not prevent erosion of DVD sales.

“Ensuring that none of my hard work made it out into the public domain before release was very important for me,” Chris says. “This DVD will be available on Amazon so I wanted to protect sales in a cost effective way and DVD Sequr provided that for the pressed run too."

More DVD releases set to take advantage of the most effective copy protection available include high value medical and educational programmes.

DVD Sequr is the most resilient copy protection system available for DVD Video, able to defeat ripping applications and disc to disc copy processes on both PCs and stand alone duplicators.

Until recently only available on DVDR, this technology is now fully compatible with the DVD replication process, allowing standard DDP images to be protected.

The result is a manufactured disc that is fully compliant to the DVD standard, independent testing has shown that there is no affect on the playability of the disc after the production is applied.

Story filed 09.04.09