Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread David Krings
On 8/7/2010 9:06, Daniel Convissor wrote: Hola: the most secure way of solving this problem is to output the text to Flash. And what do you do for users that don't have a flash player installed? --Dan Hmmm, and what about those people who do not want or are not allowed to install Flash f

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread tedd
At 3:44 AM -0500 8/7/10, Anthony Papillion wrote: You're right, Ed. It's impossible to prevent someone who wants a screenshot from getting one. Someone intent on copying information will do it, even if they have to take a picture of the screen or hand copy the material. The goal of this project

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread Daniel Convissor
Hola: > the most secure way of solving this problem is to output the text to > Flash. And what do you do for users that don't have a flash player installed? --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread Edward Potter
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 PM, "Brian O'Connor" wrote: > Well, you're pretty limited to javascript (unless you output to flash > or pdf), which obviously means anyone who disables it won't be > affected. However, as you already stated you're aware of that, one > thing that mi

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread Anthony Papillion
You're right, Ed. It's impossible to prevent someone who wants a screenshot from getting one. Someone intent on copying information will do it, even if they have to take a picture of the screen or hand copy the material. The goal of this project is just to make it harder for the "average" enterpri

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread Edward Potter
Impossible. I can always get a screen shot, shoot it off to Amazon Turk and have it 100% transcribed and sent to my email probably in a few minutes. There is no way of 100% preventing a screenshot. The core DNA of the Internet is built on sharing. No way of getting around that. You can