Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?

Subject: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?
From: Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:26:47 -0800 (PST)


I got a new request for a restricted web site on our Intranet this morning. The
requestors want to publish a restricted site; that is, only a select group of people
can even browse the site. That's not a problem; we've done that in the past.

The problem is that they also want to prohibit even those few who can browse the
site from printing any of the content on the site. So far, my experience is that if
I can browse it, I can "Save As" a copy to my local computer, and I can do anything
I want to that copy.

It seems to me that if there is a way to disable to ability to copy the content, I
can prevent content being printed. But I'm scratching my head over how to do that.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

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Tom Murrell
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http://home.columbus.rr.com/murrell/index.html Last Updated 10/28/02
--First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420--

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