[thorel]

Is it even remotly possible to make a program that somehow dissorts itself so its hard/impossible to take a printscreen? I mean, if you play a movie (or anything diplayed with the help of direcx?) the build-in windows printscreen isn't able to capture it. But other 3rd party screencapture-applications can do this easily.
If you somehow could do this, it can come quite in handy for webmasters that wishes to protect their pictures whitout ruining them with watermarks. Imagine that you made a, say, java app that shows the picture (so you can't rightclick and save it) and at the same time disables the possibiliy to printscreen :o


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Yes, I know this is a far-fetched "idea", bear in mind I'm an idiot :P

[nackas]

Sounds like a great idea. But I think the problem is, is that pictures sent via WWW have the data sent to the client... so it's kinda hard to block the saving/printscreen process. I think video player software "disables" the print screen command accidently due to the use of hardware acceleration, the card is processing the video and displaying the output.. and not the software.

But who knows, I may be wrong and it could be possible!

Great idea though thorel, this would be ground-breaking if it were possible :)

[thorel]

nackas, on Sep 2 2004, 10:52 AM, said:

Sounds like a great idea. But I think the problem is, is that pictures sent via WWW have the data sent to the client... so it's kinda hard to block the saving/printscreen process. I think video player software "disables" the print screen command accidently due to the use of hardware acceleration, the card is processing the video and displaying the output.. and not the software.

But who knows, I may be wrong and it could be possible!

Great idea though thorel, this would be ground-breaking if it were possible :)

Ground-breaking indeed :D

But the problem is that seems pretty damn near impossible to actually do, though I'm no programming-wiz. And as most of us know, theres no such thing as 100% safe protection, but if one could make something hard and time-demanding to crack, it will probably filter out most users, since I guess few people sit down and try to actually crack protectsions


ah well