On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Craig Taylor wrote:
Also, I know there have been threads about this, but the conclusion is that
there really is no way of protecting video files (MPEG-1) from being
accessed outside of the protected program. Correct?
"Protect" to what degree? You can't make it impossible, but you can make it harder to get them.
There have indeed been such discussions, and the results range from changing the file extensions of the movies, to encapsulating the movies in a database or vList file, to modifying their headers with BinaryIO xtra.
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If you want to add security to access I'm sure there is an Xtra out there that could allow you to interact with a dongle device. And there are many companies that can produce dongles that even need USB key or something like that. At the end of the day security costs money, and there are so many ways to accomplish this. Even as simple as requiring the CD to run the program. There are many options for this that stop CD duplication (None are 100% effective as far as I know). We currently use sony's securom. Don't be put off by it sounding expensive, that is far from the case. Another is a Russian company called StarForce.
A bit of research and inginuity will provide you with results. Obviously it's going to cost money at the end of the day, I work inhouse at a software development company so it's not as costly for me to spend weeks researching this as it would be for a one off client.
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