Apparatus for and a method of copy-protecting a content carrying recording medium

A method of providing recording data to be recorded onto a recording medium, the method comprising:

• providing recording data having content data comprising video data and navigation data to enable a player of the recording medium to navigate through the content data, the recording data comprising button data defining one or more user-selectable selection buttons to be presented to a viewer of the recording medium to enable the viewer to select content data to be played by the player;
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• adding to the recording data further button data defining at least one phantom button that is not intended for access by a viewer but that will be identified as a selection button by a copying apparatus.

A processor-readable storage medium storing processor instructions to program a processor to:

• provide recording data having content data comprising video data and navigation data to enable a player of the recording medium to navigate through the content data, the navigation data comprising button data defining one or more user-selectable selection buttons to be presented to a viewer to enable the viewer to select content data to be played by the player;
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• to incorporate in the navigation data further button data defining at least one phantom button that will not be selectable by the viewer but that will be identified as a selection button by a copying apparatus.