Well, there is iPaper.... http://www.scribd.com/ipaper they get around this problem by using flash to view documents.
I could imagine having a nice, preservable version safely tucked away in the archive with no access rights, and an iPaper version for online reading. That might work. > In practice the answer is always "no". Anyone who can view a document > can construct a viewer which is able to save a copy. This has nothing > to do with DSpace or HTTP or any document format; it's fundamental to > the way documents are viewed. > > The only way around this that I can think of is to introduce a human > monitor who watches the reader while he uses the document and forbids > any unauthorized use, perhaps by means of a pluggable crypto gadget > shackled to his wrist or something. Outside of a high-security > guarded area such as a bank's back office or a military installation, > I don't see this as practical. > > A partial attempt is to present the document in PDF. Conforming PDF > readers are expected to obey the "no copying" and "no printing" bits > in documents so marked. If your reader is willing to violate the PDF > spec., though, he can easily circumvent these markings, and there is > open-source software out there which can easily be hacked to do this. > Consider it equivalent in power to the spring lock on a diary, no more > -- a reminder, not an enforcement tool -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
