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RE: THANKS (was RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?)
Subject:RE: THANKS (was RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?) From:"Greg T" <ggthomp -at- attbi -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Nov 2002 15:51:36 -0800
Actually, I went to a web based museum seminar in Minnesota and there
was a company from San Jose that had a software product that allowed one
to restrict what could be printed or downloaded from a website. I have
been dying to remember the name for at least two years because I want to
create content for an idea I have for a web-based museum on Elizabethan
music. Can anyone help me with this product or give me some ideas about
how I could find it again?
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From: bounce-techwr-l-115937 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-115937 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of Tom
Murrell
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:17 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: THANKS (was RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?)
Thanks to everyone who chimed in. Some of you had some very creative
suggestions for
how to make it difficult for browsers to print content. Virtually all of
you pointed
out that I can't _really_ prevent someone from printing content; all I
can do is
make it difficult. That's what *I* thought, and I'm glad to get that
confirmed.
I'm going back to the requester to discuss some of the practical ways in
which I can
make it difficult for the reader to print a document, if that's what
they really
want to do. And we will have a discussion of the desireability of taking
even these
steps. Since we're already talking about a restricted web on a
restricted server
(Yes, I know that any determined hacker can cut through the crap and get
at the
information anyway.), I'm wondering about the message we're sending to
those who
have even this limited access. Do we really want to say, "We trust you
to see this
information, but we don't trust you to protect it?"
Besides, as I pointed out to them, if they put it on my server, they've
actually
added one more person to the access list: Me. Now *I* know I'm a
trustworthy chap,
but do they want to take that chance? BWAAAAAAAAAAA-HAH-HAH-HAH!
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