Re: FN-FORUM: Preventing saving of swf files

date posted 30th January 2007 16:44



Dominic Raywood wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I wouldn't stop people running the files, what I might do is actually
give them some server-side connection so that they recieve a parameter
or have to make an XMLHttpRequest to the server to get some of the
content, or get a key to the content. That way you have a lot more
control over how the file is run and potentially a more flexible system
as well...

-ben