I would also be very interested in reading about ways to protect content
that is embedded in a flash movie (especially fonts). Is it possible to
include art and fonts in a swf file, in a way that makes it impossible to
get those objects out of the swf movie?
The bottom line is, if you put it on the internet, it is possible to
steal it. There is no such thing as a sure way to protect anything that is
publicly available on the web. What you can do, however, is make it
difficult to dissuade all but the most determined hackers. If someone is
sufficiently determined and skilled, there is no security that will keep
them out. But your average browser isn't going to spend the time and effort
in most cases. But all it really takes to steal artwork is alt + print
screen (capture window to clipboard). So the question is, how secure does it
really need to be? The usual way this is done is only low-res, low-quality
assets are used online, that way someone who steals it will have to work
with a crappy, compressed file. Beyond that, it takes more effort to pull an
image from an swf than it does to right-clck and save as, which is often
enough to keep most people from stealing it.
ryanm
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