deny user from download and screencapture the web media

Question

nowaday...a lot of problem coming out from the web media affecting the licening problem. until now i still cannot found any good solution for deny user from downloading or screen capturing the web media content. so, i wondering is that this situation will change in rails development ? any guy got idea about doing this ?

the only solution i found is this http://www.microsoft.com/PlayReady/Default.mspx

but seem that something was change inside company of microsoft and the cost is too high after they was change to new edition...

and the most important is i don't know how to embed it into my rails_apps

Answer 1

What you are purposing is impossible on my levels. In short the technology we will never be able work this way.

A security/technical reason why this is impossible is because of client side trust. A HTTP server must send content to the client and its up to the client how they deal with it. Who is to say that someone visiting your site is using a web browser? It could be a bot making a perfect duplicate of all publicly available content on your server and there is virtually nothing you can do about it from a technical perspective.

From a legal perspective you can higher a lawyer to write an EVIL Terms of Service which can dictate what users can use your server's content. If someone breaks your Terms of Service (Like by running a bot.), then you can try and sue this person. If you go this route you'll probably end up wasting your own money, everyone's time and most importantly you'll be wasting your dignity.