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by Cameron Eagans-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots, etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website content and sharing it?

(for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Copy/paste: Rewrite the entire site as a flash app Flash and have Flash render
all text as graphics.

Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.

Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to disable that
feature.

As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet until he
gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines have been
around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical books.  
Even for a subscription site he's being asinine.

On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:

> I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for
> his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to
> help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the
> site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting
> something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of
> the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots,
> etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing
> this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website
> content and sharing it?
>
> (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the
> 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
> client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -----
> Cameron Eagans
> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

by Cameron Eagans :: Rate this Message:

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See, that was my first reaction too. Basically, the entire point of emailing here was to confirm that I wasn't just being lazy =D

Thanks for the feedback!
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@...> wrote:
Copy/paste: Rewrite the entire site as a flash app Flash and have Flash render
all text as graphics.

Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.

Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to disable that
feature.

As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet until he
gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines have been
around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical books.
Even for a subscription site he's being asinine.

On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
> I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for
> his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to
> help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the
> site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting
> something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of
> the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots,
> etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing
> this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website
> content and sharing it?
>
> (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the
> 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
> client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -----
> Cameron Eagans
> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,  
so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage  
girls from copying anything.

The true goal should be to make it inconvenient (though not  
impossible) to copy info. If he really wants what you say he's asking  
for, he should distribute his content via DVD, viewable only thru a  
custom viewer.

Domenic

On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@...>  
wrote:

> Copy/paste: Rewrite the entire site as a flash app Flash and have  
> Flash render
> all text as graphics.
>
> Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.
>
> Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to  
> disable that
> feature.
>
> As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet  
> until he
> gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines  
> have been
> around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical  
> books.
> Even for a subscription site he's being asinine.
>
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
>> I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection  
>> scheme for
>> his website. The site will be an educational site for medical  
>> students to
>> help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access  
>> to the
>> site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is  
>> requesting
>> something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content  
>> out of
>> the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing,  
>> screenshots,
>> etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of  
>> doing
>> this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying  
>> website
>> content and sharing it?
>>
>> (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial  
>> to the
>> 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
>> client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an  
>> effort =D )
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> -----
>> Cameron Eagans
>> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
>> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
>
> --
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Lyrics sites are a good example. In some cases they retrieve content
using nothing by javascript (ajax) and then have a bunch of other
javascript functions to protect the content. So if you disable
javascript, you can't even get at the content.

So in theory you could do that, make the content show up through
javascript, would really even have to use ajax if you didn't want to,
just put the html as an encoded json string on the page and then load it
using jQuery, but it's a really messy way to do things and really just
ugly. However, I don't know of any clean ways of achieving that goal.

Sami

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:15 -0700, Domenic Santangelo wrote:

> Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,  
> so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage  
> girls from copying anything.
>
> The true goal should be to make it inconvenient (though not  
> impossible) to copy info. If he really wants what you say he's asking  
> for, he should distribute his content via DVD, viewable only thru a  
> custom viewer.
>
> Domenic
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@...>  
> wrote:
>
> > Copy/paste: Rewrite the entire site as a flash app Flash and have  
> > Flash render
> > all text as graphics.
> >
> > Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.
> >
> > Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to  
> > disable that
> > feature.
> >
> > As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet  
> > until he
> > gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines  
> > have been
> > around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical  
> > books.
> > Even for a subscription site he's being asinine.
> >
> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
> >> I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection  
> >> scheme for
> >> his website. The site will be an educational site for medical  
> >> students to
> >> help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access  
> >> to the
> >> site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is  
> >> requesting
> >> something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content  
> >> out of
> >> the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing,  
> >> screenshots,
> >> etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of  
> >> doing
> >> this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying  
> >> website
> >> content and sharing it?
> >>
> >> (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial  
> >> to the
> >> 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
> >> client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an  
> >> effort =D )
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >> -----
> >> Cameron Eagans
> >> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> >> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
> >
> > --
> > Larry Garfield
> > larry@...
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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On 10-11-2009 6:15 PM, Domenic Santangelo wrote:
> Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,  
> so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage  
> girls from copying anything.
>  

Please be on the lookout for your own sexism before posting such
sentences. thank you.

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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While the fact that you called him on sexism, but not age-ism would indicate that you were ok with it being attributed to teenagers, which means your a closet age-ist?  ;-)


adept digital evolution wrote:

On 10-11-2009 6:15 PM, Domenic Santangelo wrote:
  
Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,  
so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage  
girls from copying anything.
  
    

Please be on the lookout for your own sexism before posting such 
sentences. thank you.

  

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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adept digital evolution wrote:
> On 10-11-2009 6:15 PM, Domenic Santangelo wrote:
>> Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,  
>> so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage  
>> girls from copying anything.
>>  
>
> Please be on the lookout for your own sexism before posting such
> sentences. thank you.
>
Please be on the lookout for rejection of reality before posting such
sentences thank-you.

Ashley




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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Larry Garfield wrote:
> Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.
>
> Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to disable that
> feature.
>
> As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet until he
> gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines have been
> around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical books.  
>  
Xerox machines are exactly the loop hole you've forgotten. Once we've
unplugged their printer and hacked out their screenshots, they can
simply place their monitor faced down on the xerox machine and hit 'copy.'

What you'll need to do is run the site on a single computer in a locked
room that is not connected to the internet, and charge people an
admission fee. Don't forget to check their pockets for camera phones,
pencils, and silly putty.

Speaking of silly...

-Matt









> On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
>  
>> I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for
>> his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to
>> help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the
>> site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting
>> something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of
>> the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots,
>> etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing
>> this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website
>> content and sharing it?
>>
>> (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the
>> 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
>> client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> -----
>> Cameron Eagans
>> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
>> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
>>    
>
>  
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Don't we all hate to deal with "silly" clients (I use term "silly" just to be polite) and "silly" requests of "silly" clients.
Unfortunately, most of us have to deal with that from time to time. Don't forget, if all clients will be very smart, then most of them will do they web sites by themselves.
So, paradox is that more "silly" clients produce more jobs.
I hate to acknowledge this paradox but it is true.
;P


Matt Chapman wrote:
Larry Garfield wrote:
  
Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.

Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to disable that 
feature.

As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet until he 
gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines have been 
around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical books.  
  
    
Xerox machines are exactly the loop hole you've forgotten. Once we've 
unplugged their printer and hacked out their screenshots, they can 
simply place their monitor faced down on the xerox machine and hit 'copy.'

What you'll need to do is run the site on a single computer in a locked 
room that is not connected to the internet, and charge people an 
admission fee. Don't forget to check their pockets for camera phones, 
pencils, and silly putty.

Speaking of silly...

-Matt


  
On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
  
    
I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for
his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to
help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the
site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting
something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of
the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots,
etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing
this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website
content and sharing it?

(for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the
'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )

Thanks in advance!
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Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
http://www.blackstormsstudios.com

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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I don't think that what the client is asking is "silly". It's a valid
concern. But one which the current community doesn't sympathize with --
namely how to keep copyrighted materials from being copied so one can
protect their business model, value, and therefore profits.

After all if they had no business model, why would they be paying
thousands of dollars to develop a website? Hence, the developers should
do their best to see that he or she fulfils such requests, just make
sure you have an airtight contract and the client understands the nature
of what you are doing for them very well before you do it.

In the future perhaps DRM will be as common as it is elsewhere, or
copyrighted material will no longer exist. In which case there will be
no incentive to be an author other than just to market yourself as an
expert.

In any case, just putting stuff out there on the web destroys the value
of the material in the eyes of the consumer, so even if you can make it
hard for the consumer to get at the material; that very fact creates
value. Now you can want everyone to think outside of the box all you
want, but the copyrighted publishing model in the age of ubiquity as
defined by the printing press has been a valid model for quite sometime.
Do expect people to want it to hold for some time more.

Regards,
Sami Khan

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:11 -0400, lapurd@... wrote:

> Don't we all hate to deal with "silly" clients (I use term "silly"
> just to be polite) and "silly" requests of "silly" clients.
> Unfortunately, most of us have to deal with that from time to time.
> Don't forget, if all clients will be very smart, then most of them
> will do they web sites by themselves.
> So, paradox is that more "silly" clients produce more jobs.
> I hate to acknowledge this paradox but it is true.
> ;P
>
>
> Matt Chapman wrote:
> > Larry Garfield wrote:
> >  
> > > Printing: Go to your users' computers and unplug their printers.
> > >
> > > Screenshots: Hack into your users' computers and hack their OS to disable that
> > > feature.
> > >
> > > As for your client, he needs to be banned from using the Internet until he
> > > gets a clue that it's no longer the 1800s.  Hell, Xerox machines have been
> > > around forever and they allow all sorts of duplication of physical books.  
> > >  
> > >    
> > Xerox machines are exactly the loop hole you've forgotten. Once we've
> > unplugged their printer and hacked out their screenshots, they can
> > simply place their monitor faced down on the xerox machine and hit 'copy.'
> >
> > What you'll need to do is run the site on a single computer in a locked
> > room that is not connected to the internet, and charge people an
> > admission fee. Don't forget to check their pockets for camera phones,
> > pencils, and silly putty.
> >
> > Speaking of silly...
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> >  
> > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 3:47:23 pm Cameron Eagans wrote:
> > >  
> > >    
> > > > I have a client that is requesting a sort of DRM/Copy protection scheme for
> > > > his website. The site will be an educational site for medical students to
> > > > help them prepare for an exam for their field of work, and access to the
> > > > site will be granted on a subscription basis. The client is requesting
> > > > something that I don't know how to do:  prevent getting the content out of
> > > > the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots,
> > > > etc. I'm reasonably certain that there is no foolproof method of doing
> > > > this. Does anyone have a method of preventing users from copying website
> > > > content and sharing it?
> > > >
> > > > (for the record, I don't support this approach -- I'm more partial to the
> > > > 'Don't copy our stuff or we'll sue the crap out of you' approach. The
> > > > client is asking for it though, so I have to at least make an effort =D )
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > > -----
> > > > Cameron Eagans
> > > > Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> > > > http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Sami Khan wrote:

> I don't think that what the client is asking is "silly". It's a valid
> concern. But one which the current community doesn't sympathize with --
> namely how to keep copyrighted materials from being copied so one can
> protect their business model, value, and therefore profits.
>
>  
As far as I can see, the original copyrighted material, print matter, is
still available in print matter, and people can still run to a copy
machine and make a copy of it, beyond fair use, if they want to. There
is no way to completely prevent any copyright infringement other than
(a) don't make the material available, or (b) police it.

It's like not wanting dings on your car. That's fine. It's your car. You
worked hard for it. No one should have the right to ding it. So you can
post armed guards around it at the supermarket, not drive it, or accept
that if you put it out there, it might get dinged.
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:59 -0400, Jeff Greenberg wrote:

> As far as I can see, the original copyrighted material, print matter,
> is
> still available in print matter, and people can still run to a copy
> machine and make a copy of it, beyond fair use, if they want to.
> There
> is no way to completely prevent any copyright infringement other than
> (a) don't make the material available, or (b) police it.
>
> It's like not wanting dings on your car. That's fine. It's your car.
> You
> worked hard for it. No one should have the right to ding it. So you
> can
> post armed guards around it at the supermarket, not drive it, or
> accept
> that if you put it out there, it might get dinged.


I agree with that sentiment, that they can, the point that I was trying
to make is that it is too make it harder to do. If you have to look at
the source code of a document, then take a json string and convert it to
text, you might be less inclined to copy it and pass it on to a friend
that has not paid the dues, then if you can just print it to a PDF and
e-mail it. The same with photocopying, I have a number of books that I
may lend to a friend, but I have yet to photocopy an entire book and
pass it on. Though I do know it happens, but it does not happen often
enough that the profits are overly affected, else the publishers
wouldn't be making the sort of profits to stay in business.

Regards,
Sami

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Sami Khan wrote:

>
> I agree with that sentiment, that they can, the point that I was trying
> to make is that it is too make it harder to do.
> Regards,
> Sami
>  
You do make a good point. This is off the top of my head, and I'm sure
someone will jump in with why this would be a horrible idea, but it
seems that if you can make a DVD player refuse to copy a DVD (or skip
the annoying warning about skipping the annoying warning), you should be
able to have the OS refuse to do a screen capture, for example. It's not
foolproof, but neither is the DVD thing.

Best,
Jeff
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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On Oct 11, 2009, at Sun 10/11/09 8:04pm, Jeff Greenberg wrote:

> Sami Khan wrote:
>
>>
>> I agree with that sentiment, that they can, the point that I was  
>> trying
>> to make is that it is too make it harder to do.
>> Regards,
>> Sami
>>
> You do make a good point. This is off the top of my head, and I'm sure
> someone will jump in with why this would be a horrible idea, but it
> seems that if you can make a DVD player refuse to copy a DVD (or skip
> the annoying warning about skipping the annoying warning), you  
> should be
> able to have the OS refuse to do a screen capture, for example. It's  
> not
> foolproof, but neither is the DVD thing.

I believe you're describing Sony Rootkit.

Laura

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Nobody is disagree that it is possible to make access "more controllable" but original requirements described in email that start this thread is state:
"... prevent getting the content out of the site in any way. He wants to disable copy/paste, printing, screenshots, etc.".

And that requirement is "silly".
As it was explained before in this thread, it is possible with combination to restrict access to content and make it hard to retrieve "through some of back doors":
  • it is possible to disable copy/paste right from web page but not from source code of the page;
  • it is also possible to make content to be visible only in real browser and make it not retrievable for web site mirroring software;
  • it is possible to make browser do not use disk cache and therefore make it impossible to retrieve content from browser cache folder;
  • may be even in some browsers it is possible to disable printing right from that web page.
But without violating/hacking into user computer it is impossible to disable operating system ability to take a screenshot.
So, point is that statement like "prevent getting the content out of the site in any way" make an original requirements "silly".
Of course, it should be explain to client in most polite way.
Problem is that some times some of the clients firmly believes that they are know what they talking about. And in this case it is not easy situation when you'll try to point them out to they own mistake.


Sami Khan wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:59 -0400, Jeff Greenberg wrote:
  
As far as I can see, the original copyrighted material, print matter,
is 
still available in print matter, and people can still run to a copy 
machine and make a copy of it, beyond fair use, if they want to.
There 
is no way to completely prevent any copyright infringement other than 
(a) don't make the material available, or (b) police it.

It's like not wanting dings on your car. That's fine. It's your car.
You 
worked hard for it. No one should have the right to ding it. So you
can 
post armed guards around it at the supermarket, not drive it, or
accept 
that if you put it out there, it might get dinged.
    


I agree with that sentiment, that they can, the point that I was trying
to make is that it is too make it harder to do. If you have to look at
the source code of a document, then take a json string and convert it to
text, you might be less inclined to copy it and pass it on to a friend
that has not paid the dues, then if you can just print it to a PDF and
e-mail it. The same with photocopying, I have a number of books that I
may lend to a friend, but I have yet to photocopy an entire book and
pass it on. Though I do know it happens, but it does not happen often
enough that the profits are overly affected, else the publishers
wouldn't be making the sort of profits to stay in business.

Regards,
Sami

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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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I can certainly sympathise with their concern, but like others have pointed out, the best you can really do is make it a bit more difficult. A couple of years ago, I visited a site that had some pictures I wanted to "collect" but they had copy-and-paste overridden (I don't know how but have run into it a few times). Then, for some strange reason, I happened to look at my browser cache files - there they were, already on my disk waiting to be renamed and copied! It was slightly more effort, but I still have some of those "copy-protected" pictures.
 
"You can fool some of the people all the time; and all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time." The customer is going to have to pick one of the "somes."
 
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Please stay on topic. I think sexism was not the point of that sentence.

Wow, this thread certainly generated more traffic than I thought it would!

My thought is this:  if it is displayed on a user's monitor, it can be copied. Even if there were some magical javascript that you could insert that would disable screenshots, what's to stop a user from taking a picture of their monitor? What about virtualizing the OS and taking a screen shot from the host OS?

I think I'll just let him know it's 100% impossible from stopping 100% of the copying that may or may not occur.
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ashley Maher <ashley.maher@...> wrote:
adept digital evolution wrote:
> On 10-11-2009 6:15 PM, Domenic Santangelo wrote:
>> Lyrics websites have pretty decent cut/paste protection. It's just js,
>> so easily defeatable, but hey I'm sure it keeps 99% of the teenage
>> girls from copying anything.
>>
>
> Please be on the lookout for your own sexism before posting such
> sentences. thank you.
>
Please be on the lookout for rejection of reality before posting such
sentences thank-you.

Ashley



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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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Hello, Cameron,

I would also point out to the client that they are putting resources
into preventing something that is impossible to prevent; so,
effort/resources (aka time/money) put into this functionality will never
be successful.

Then, ask the client what other aspects of their business could they
devote resources to where they could have real returns?

I they are dedicated to attempting to achieve what is not possible, to
the expense of other areas of their business, I would attempt to work
with them to help ensure that they spend their resources where they will
have the greatest return.

Cheers,

Bill

Cameron Eagans wrote:

>
> My thought is this:  if it is displayed on a user's monitor, it can be
> copied. Even if there were some magical javascript that you could insert
> that would disable screenshots, what's to stop a user from taking a
> picture of their monitor? What about virtualizing the OS and taking a
> screen shot from the host OS?
>
> I think I'll just let him know it's 100% impossible from stopping 100%
> of the copying that may or may not occur.
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> Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
> http://www.blackstormsstudios.com
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Re: Copy Protection/DRM approach

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As per my experience and my own view, I believe, this can be achieved at certain extent.
You just convert the content (nodes) to pdf and disable copy/paste/print for the content

Regards.
Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
Hello, Cameron,

I would also point out to the client that they are putting resources 
into preventing something that is impossible to prevent; so, 
effort/resources (aka time/money) put into this functionality will never 
be successful.

Then, ask the client what other aspects of their business could they 
devote resources to where they could have real returns?

I they are dedicated to attempting to achieve what is not possible, to 
the expense of other areas of their business, I would attempt to work 
with them to help ensure that they spend their resources where they will 
have the greatest return.

Cheers,

Bill

Cameron Eagans wrote:

  
My thought is this:  if it is displayed on a user's monitor, it can be 
copied. Even if there were some magical javascript that you could insert 
that would disable screenshots, what's to stop a user from taking a 
picture of their monitor? What about virtualizing the OS and taking a 
screen shot from the host OS?

I think I'll just let him know it's 100% impossible from stopping 100% 
of the copying that may or may not occur.
-----
Cameron Eagans
Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
http://www.blackstormsstudios.com


    
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