[plug] Protecting Online Files

[Shannon Carver]

Chris Watt wrote:
> I didn't think there would be an answer.  My suggestion was
> watermarking.  It was obviously members only, of course.
>
> He's just paranoid.  He may have to just deal with it and have some
> trust for his clients.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> By the By, I hate DRM, eats my battery >.<
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I think the best he can do is put that Adobe Acrobat protection on the 
file where you can't simply use the text select tool to select and copy 
the text.  This doesn't prevent copies being distributed, or the article 
being OCR'd, but at least its stopping someone from simply copying and 
pasting it.

Having this level of security behind a payment/security protected 
gateway is the best he can hope for I'd say..