Even that wouldn't work if one were determined. I occasionally run a port or
stream watching ustility, which captures to a file all incoming and outgoing
TCP/IP streams. Anything in plain text is easily decipherable, and it doesn't
take too much trouble to decipher HTML. I'm sure with only minimal effort one
could use the same approach to reconstruct graphics or even streaming sound
files - you just need to be able to pick out the file headers and use a text
editior to reconstruct the file in a format your viewer or player can read.
It shouldn't be too hard to work out a way of fooling the java applet either if
you wanted to do it that way.
Dylan - resistance is futile.
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:39:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Lau <dlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM] protecting images from theft
I know the "International Lyrics Server" (www.lyrics.ch) has managed
to solve the problem by downloading a Java applet to your platform.
This applet will detect any key presses or mouse clicks and then
clear the page to prevent you from printing or capturing it.
If you have heard about the current copyright problems with Napster,
you'd understand the length the music community will go to protect
their "property". The Lyrics Server used to be hosted in the USA,
and they ran into trouble with the copyright holders; so they moved
the server out of the country but still not enough to protect
themselves from the legal system. Finally they implemented this
mechanism to prevent someone from printing out the (copyrighted)
lyrics (but you can still copy it down by hand if you are quick
enough, because it scrolls by pretty fast). Apparently this applet
was good enough for the music copyright holders to allow the Lyrics
Server to continue to make the lyrics available.
-Dan
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:31, Hans van Veluwen <HVeluwen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>:Someone out there, I forget who & didn't bookmark, protected their
>:photographs by putting them in an Adobe Acrobat protected file. You
>:can display, but not save or print. Cute.
>Cute and naive. "Print Screen" followed by "Ctrl-V" in
PaintShop Pro should
>take care of it.
>hnz
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