FN-FORUM: Preventing saving of swf files

date posted 30th January 2007 16:16

And finally Esther...

I am not au fait with swf files and haven't used flash at all. What I
need to do is embed a flash file on a website, but make it impossible or
at least very difficult for someone to then save the file to disk and use
later. I know that those with the nouse will do it anyway, but most
people aren't that clever.

Is there a method or tool that you can use instead of the usual
and that will play the animation, but make it difficult to get at
the file.

My client will be providing e-books as part of a learning site and doesn't
want people to then be able to save the files and pass them on to friends
who haven't paid for membership. I know they could simply share a login,
but if the membership allowed a set number of files to be accessed per
month, that would hopefully stop that. They want to make the membership
very inexpensive, but unless people use it fairly, then that is a
non-goer.

Any flash wizz-kids out there?

Thanks.

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