[consulting] Copy Protection/DRM approach

[Cameron Eagans]

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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Cameron Eagans
Owner, Black Storms Studios, LLC
http://www.blackstormsstudios.com


On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>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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> Larry Garfield
> larry at garfieldtech.com
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