Anthony, I think for the average visitor to a web page, I would look
into outputting the text as an image. This way it could be made to
look like a regular web page and doesn't require the visitor to
install or update anything on their computer such as Flash. I remember
seeing some routines built-in to PHP that including writing text over
a graphic. The graphic could be simply white to look like the
background of the web page or whatever the design is.
You could write some test examples and run them at the Linux command
level using the 'time' command to see how much overhead they really
add vs displaying the text:
time php textasgraphic.php
time php justtext.php
Before anyone else further beats up on the concept, I can understand
why someone would prefer not to have people copy and paste their
content out of context and e-mail it around such as a company news
release, where the company would prefer people direct others to the
web page itself.
David Roth
On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:44 AM, 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 is just to make it harder for the "average"
enterprise use from copying information.
Thanks,
A
On 8/7/10, Edward Potter <[email protected]> wrote:
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 make it a bit harder but impossible to prevent copying.
Just the
nature of the beast.
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On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Anthony Papillion <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thank you everyone for your feedback on this problem. In the end,
I think
the most secure way of solving this problem is to output the text to
Flash. While I know it's fairly easy to download a Flash applet
(which
would, in essence, copy the text, I believe most of the people
using this
system won't know that and will be 'safe enough'. Additionally,
if I
remember correctly, Flash content doesn't show up in a screenshot
(though
I could be wrong on this).
So thank you for the input. It's much appreciated.
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