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Re: Turning off screen shot ability
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Re: Turning off screen shot ability


  • Subject: Re: Turning off screen shot ability
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:02:53 -0800

On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Brad O'Hearne <email@hidden> wrote:

> I am interested in the capabilities of the machine (OS X) and if so, how. I need to programmatically within an app (not by external system administration) turn off all screen capture capability, by hotkeys, or by grabbing the contents of the window.

Apple’s DVD player app does this, for DRM purposes*. I don’t know how it manages it, whether it’s some public system API or an internal-only thing … but it might be a useful clue to track down.

—Jens

* And whatever people think about the legitimacy of that reason, it was imposed on Apple by the movie studios as a precondition for being able to use the DVD decryption codec.
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