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hi! I read this all, but i really didnt understand what do i do and how do i start. I have a word document on which i have pasted my scanned signature and i dont want anyone to copy it from my word document. PLEASE HELP

markla: To make it really simple just add <style type=”text/css”>@media print { body { display: none; } }</style> inside the head element of your HTML document. That ought to do the trick.

Has anyone post a complied swf file please ?

@Kilppari
display: none; works great

Great tip. It works fine in IE and not in Mozilla

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

Jsut a thought… Similar to a previous comment, Textpad has the functionality to record clipboard contents. Luckily it’s clever enough to de0dupe (otherwise the log window would flood with your site open), but i can’t see anyr eason why it would fail to capture the text.

Another thought and I can not even begin to see a way around this one:

We use Radmin / VNC a lot at my office (software dev – we’re all lazy). There nothign to stop someone connecting from comp1 to comp2, maknig cmop2 go to the page and then prnitscreen on comp1 – Everythign mentioned before would wipe the wrong clipboard. (You’d just ahve to make sure the focus was out of the main window so the printscr wasn’t passed across the conenction)

That aside, an excellent start!

So what stops someone using a third party screen grabber application grabbing the screen contents? If you are not in an environment where you can control what is on the user’s desktop you might want to look at some DRM technology. LockLizard – http://www.locklizard.com – prevent use of print screen, screen grabbers, printing, copying and pasting and sending information on to others. You can even specify when information expires. Works with html, images, text and flash, and PDF files.

I’ve been spending a couple of hours a week having to chase down our copyrighted website material, this is a great first line of defense against people with no imagination and no writing skills that just copy and paste away… Great solution, Thanks Jason!

Hi,

I have an ‘opposite’
problem. I met in my company, and wanted to know if you can think of an idea how to solve it.

What we need is the following:

1) On our customers’ website, we want to add only a link which will open a new page.

2) We can’t add screenshot capture javascript in our customer’s site, because they might have sensitive content and will not agree to put such javascript in their sites.

3) The new page is in our website (in our domain), should have some kind of javascript that will go to document.opener / previous page (or something else) and will try to get screenshot from there.

The important point is that we want to put only a link in the customers html pages, we don’t want to put there javascript. All the javascript should be only in our pages.

Maybe some browser API or frequent plugin API that can do it?

If it not possible to take the screenshot from the document.opener; is it possible to take from it’s the scroll position; (and then in the server we will connect to this website, scroll it to the right location and take a screenshot)?

Or any other origin idea?

Thanks,
Eylon Steiner

Try CopySafe. It will protect from all including screen capture apps.

I tried to use your suggestion on my blogspot but it didn’t work. I am an extremely novice blogger! Could you explain how I might use that code on my google blogspot. Thanks!!

Take any steps to prevent printing?

wow this is great well done.
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
System.setClipboard(”As long as this page is open your copy/paste functionality has been disabled.”);
}
That code works with everything except it doesnt block print screen in safari. If it blocked macs/safari print screen youd have an absoloute winner. 90 % of the market is pretty damn good though. Thanks

fine

works really great… thanks dude!

I am looking for software that disables copying text from an email and on the internet. If you know of such a product, please email me the name of the product and if possible a link to the webpage.

a next to perfect solution. But if one drags some selected text or an image from the page and drops it in Microsoft Word, the solution cant prevent such bahavior. Worse, how if a user disables script?

frustratingly SnagIt can break the protection we make by such codes; how can we build a wonderful solution against such advanced tool?

If you ahve a genuine reason to have this on your site then fine, but it is ridiculous that sites should use this to try and stop people copying the content. Have a look at the Lion Man website, this does the same, if you ahve it open you can’t copy and paste at all, even unrelated stuff in word. Are the people so dilluded with self grandure to think that everyoen wants to copy thier site?
I was actually copying the URL form my address bar to pass it on to a friend but ti dodn’t let me! Any web designer adding this to a site without good reason should be shot. It is almost like telling your visitors you don’t want them there!

This is the same trick I was using for the past few years with no problems but it looks like Chrome, Vista IE and Safari are now allowing print screen even with this flash solution. I tried this page with no trouble right now, if you have any updates I know I’m not the only one interested.

Tried this exactly as described, but it just didn’t work for stopping the print screen and then pasting the image into photoshop.

I create websites with images that I’d like to protect but unfortunately this didn’t do it. I’m on Vista and tried it both in IE 7x, and Netscape9x.

Andrew,

May be something you need to check in your website. I implemented above solution and tested in Photoshop. Solution disabled print screen.

Thanks,
Rakesh

I can give you the “impossible to stop” situation. I am running XP inside VMWare Fusion on my mac. I use my mac’s print screen function to capture my windows screen. There is plain and simple, so way to stop that.

Information wants to be free.