Re: FLASH: Security on a swf file.

[John Dowdell]

At 11:12 AM 7/19/0, Neyra, Nestor (CCL) wrote:

> The problem that I'm having is that I don't know what's the

> best way to protect the movie from being copied or printed

> right from the browser.


That's one of the difficult things about publishing anything... there's

always the risk that someone will misuse and misappropriate what you made.


This is a popular thread on the net, but one realization which tends to

short-circuit such conversations is to remember that anyone looking at the

computer can do a screen-capture. If it's displayed, it can be captured.


You can certainly set up the Flash content so it's not printed. You might

also consider subterfuges such as dynamically loading movie levels, so that

all the content is not in one file.


Still, if a screen of info is distributed and displayed, then there's

always a way to capture it. It depends on who you trust, and the

cost/benefit to them of doing you wrong.


jd









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