help on protecting web content

Russell

I was looking for a comprehensive digital rights management system that protects
all type of contnet (images/scripts/asp generated etc.) and prevents savvy
users from "caching" in on ther info.

On Simtel, I came up with a neat application called AllRights
( http://www.simtel.com/product.php?id=67657 )
It allowed me to totally control (amount of time and number of times) the
way my content (including images)is viewed, printed, saved etc.

Do you or anyone out there have any experience with it??

"Russell Jones" <arj1@nospam.northstate.net> wrote:
>It depends partially on the type of content and the level of protection
>involved. For example, at the simplest level, you can display information
in
>a browser instance that doesn't provide access to the standard save/print
>functions; however the browser does still cache information, so that's not
>going to prevent savvy users from accessing the data.
>
>If the information for sale is simply data, such as email lists, or other
>database-type information, you can sell those by giving authorized users
>(paying customers) access to a URL where they can download the information.
>That may not be what you want, but it's widely used for list and pure data
>sales.
>
>The method that most content vendors have chosen is not to try to deliver
>the information so that it can't be copied or saved; instead, they simply
>limit access to the site to people who have paid a registration/access fee.
>Note that that doesn't prevent people *with* access from copying the
>information and posting it somewhere else--in other words, this is not a
>secure solution from that point of view. This works best when the
>information is both large and time-sensitive, in other words, when it won't
>do the user much good to save the information because it changes rapidly,
is
>too big (too many pages) to save easily, or both.
>
>If you wish to go further, you can provide a Java applet, .NET application
>or ActiveX control that dynamically retrieves and displays the content in
a
>proprietary way, but for most commericial Web applications, that's
>apparently more trouble than it's worth. There are notable exceptions, such
>as Yahoo games. You may run into a great deal of resistance from potential
>customers and also numerous security and technical problems if you pursue
>that route, regardless of which application base you choose.
>
>Yet another option is to create a proprietary desktop application that
>retrieves the information dynamically via the Web. That lets you maintain
>the data in a central location while maintaining complete control over the
>display of the information on the user's desktop, particularly if you
>encrypt the infomation while it's in transit. Of course, then you run into
>the problems of installing and deploying your application, and possibly
>having to create multiple versions of your application--one for each
>platform. AOL and the various non-browser-based Instant Messenging
>applications follow this route.
>
>All in all, preventing unauthorized users from accessing the site is by
far
>the most economical choice, if it's a viable one for you.
>
>
>"Frank" <frank_tripucka@post.com> wrote in message
>news:3f4a2279$1@tnews.web.dev-archive.com...
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>> 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
>>
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