Abstract: A method and system for preventing a visual video copy being made of a projected image on a screen. In a theater or television or computer screen environment, an image is displayed on a screen by a film projector or a video projector or by the cathode ray tube or the LCD screen. A form of piracy is accomplished by copying the image on the screen with a video camcorder or camera. This invention seeks to produce visual presentations which invention inhibits off-screen copying by camcorders or cameras. A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises of recording means which records images at variable frame rates which rates are either pre-programmed or decided by the user of the means. The variation of the frame rates forms a rate sequence which is recorded simultaneously when the images are recorded. The rate sequence will be read by the display device when the recorded images are displayed such that the images are displayed at the frame rates at which they are recorded.