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Re: Prevent saving QT movies in a web page?

We serve short snippets (4-10 min) of full-length copyrighted movies for the purpose of direct college course support.
As everyone has mentioned, copy-protection can be broken much of the time, and can be an illusion.
You can see what viodentia has done to MS's supposedly heavy-duty DRM recently, though MS has promised to fix it soon (and maybe it already has).
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114916
But hey, vidoentia and his buddies are not going away...

However, in our case, we need to make a good-faith effort to try and implement some type of simple copy-protection. That's a sort of unwritten contract in using a limited amount of copyrighted materials, without permission, in higher ed. (Ducking the thrown eggs and tomatoes, but hey, it's true)

We use Apple's Save As Uneditable applescript, which George Cook has kindly upgraded to work with QT7, see file sharing area at
http://web.mac.com/cook5/iWeb/george_dot_mac/Welcome.html

The average user is not going to know how to set the flag to save the files, and there is no easily-found tool to do this yet.
They can play the movie, but can't save it. This feature makes many people warm and fuzzy, and we have made a reasonable good-faith effort to protect the material.

We can always escalate the protection in several ways if we get uncomfortable, but the above works for us, for now, and is simple to implement.
You can call it an illusion, but then many things in life are, yet they work most of the time.

I hear the rumor, BTW, that the next version of QTSS will have some type of authentication, maybe this will provide more solutions.

Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College


From: xroads <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Prevent saving QT movies in a web page?

Actually I was not asking for advice on whether to prevent saving movies or
not.

I just asked HOW to prevent non-advanced users from saving QT movies.
I'm quite capable of making that decision for myself, as are all other
content creators. No soapboxes are needed.

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