[consulting] Copy Protection/DRM approach

[Larry Garfield]

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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