protecting content on the web

[Frank]

I have a client that wants to sell his content on the web.

He wants to control how long it can be viewed and if it can be saved or downloaded.


does anyone know of an application that does that??

please respond

Frank

[Michael]

Frank,

What is the content? That will affect the solutions or suggestions you get.
For starters, regarding viewing concerns, you can place screen shots of the
content and place a watermark or text over the image so its not usable in
that state. Or only show previews of the content and not everything so its
not usable as is.

RE the download concerns, once you get confirmation from the payment
transaction, create a unique ID or password in a "downloads "table with a
bit column for "Used" or "Downloaded". Make the download page require this
ID or pswd and once the download is complete update the "Used" column. The
download page should check the "used" column and only begin download if the
bit is 0.

Just a thought.
Good luck!

--

Michael A Sanchez
Runtime Web Development
Dynamic Websites
Business Applications
Web: http://www.RuntimeWebDev.com
Email: MSanchez@RuntimeWebDev.com



"Frank" <frank_tripucka@post.com> wrote in message
news:3f4a209e$1@tnews.web.devx.com...
>
> I have a client that wants to sell his content on the web.
>
> He wants to control how long it can be viewed and if it can be saved or
downloaded.
>
>
> does anyone know of an application that does that??
>
> please respond
>
> Frank
>

[Austin Gonsoulin]

Michael

IMHO watermarks are an elementary solution. any good graphic artists with
some photoshop experience can make an image look as good as the original.

On Simtel, I downloaded a neat application called AllRights
( http://www.simtel.com/product.php?id=67657 )
It has some real neat features for protecting images..like allowing the
system administrator to cause the image to be distorted/pixilated etc. after
a certain amount of viewing time.

It also allowed me to totally prevent images from being cached or downloaded
or screen captured or printed!!!

Do you Michael or Frank know the program??



"Michael" <msanchez@runtimewebdev.com> wrote:
>Frank,
>
>What is the content? That will affect the solutions or suggestions you get.
>For starters, regarding viewing concerns, you can place screen shots of
the
>content and place a watermark or text over the image so its not usable in
>that state. Or only show previews of the content and not everything so its
>not usable as is.
>
>RE the download concerns, once you get confirmation from the payment
>transaction, create a unique ID or password in a "downloads "table with
a
>bit column for "Used" or "Downloaded". Make the download page require this
>ID or pswd and once the download is complete update the "Used" column. The
>download page should check the "used" column and only begin download if
the
>bit is 0.
>
>Just a thought.
>Good luck!
>
>--
>
>Michael A Sanchez
>Runtime Web Development
>Dynamic Websites
>Business Applications
>Web: http://www.RuntimeWebDev.com
>Email: MSanchez@RuntimeWebDev.com
>
>
>
>"Frank" <frank_tripucka@post.com> wrote in message
>news:3f4a209e$1@tnews.web.devx.com...
>>
>> I have a client that wants to sell his content on the web.
>>
>> He wants to control how long it can be viewed and if it can be saved or
>downloaded.
>>
>>
>> does anyone know of an application that does that??
>>
>> please respond
>>
>> Frank
>>
>
>

[Michael]

Not familiar with it. Very interesting though, good info in the case of
images.


"Austin Gonsoulin" <austin_gonsoulin@juno.com> wrote in message
news:3f4dda6f$1@tnews.web.devx.com...
>
> Michael
>
> IMHO watermarks are an elementary solution. any good graphic artists with
> some photoshop experience can make an image look as good as the original.
>
> On Simtel, I downloaded a neat application called AllRights
> ( http://www.simtel.com/product.php?id=67657 )
> It has some real neat features for protecting images..like allowing the
> system administrator to cause the image to be distorted/pixilated etc.
after
> a certain amount of viewing time.
>
> It also allowed me to totally prevent images from being cached or
downloaded
> or screen captured or printed!!!
>
> Do you Michael or Frank know the program??
>
>
>
> "Michael" <msanchez@runtimewebdev.com> wrote:
> >Frank,
> >
> >What is the content? That will affect the solutions or suggestions you
get.
> >For starters, regarding viewing concerns, you can place screen shots of
> the
> >content and place a watermark or text over the image so its not usable in
> >that state. Or only show previews of the content and not everything so
its
> >not usable as is.
> >
> >RE the download concerns, once you get confirmation from the payment
> >transaction, create a unique ID or password in a "downloads "table with
> a
> >bit column for "Used" or "Downloaded". Make the download page require
this
> >ID or pswd and once the download is complete update the "Used" column.
The
> >download page should check the "used" column and only begin download if
> the
> >bit is 0.
> >
> >Just a thought.
> >Good luck!
> >
> >--
> >
> >Michael A Sanchez
> >Runtime Web Development
> >Dynamic Websites
> >Business Applications
> >Web: http://www.RuntimeWebDev.com
> >Email: MSanchez@RuntimeWebDev.com
> >
> >
> >
> >"Frank" <frank_tripucka@post.com> wrote in message
> >news:3f4a209e$1@tnews.web.devx.com...
> >>
> >> I have a client that wants to sell his content on the web.
> >>
> >> He wants to control how long it can be viewed and if it can be saved or
> >downloaded.
> >>
> >>
> >> does anyone know of an application that does that??
> >>
> >> please respond
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> >
> >
>