Congradulations to the Winners

[Toby]

Originally Posted by gonzo

...If it can be played on the screen it can be scraped.

Yup, and as soon as the number of sites using that method has reached critical mass there will be some industrious college student code a free utility to make capturing the stream a snap.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Toby

Yup, and as soon as the number of sites using that method has reached critical mass there will be some industrious college student code a free utility to make capturing the stream a snap.

FACT: if you can view it, you can capture it.

you can make it harder for the masses to grab it. but no matter how difficult you make it, there's some jack ass out there who will grab it and convert it right back to an open format and post it on torrents, newsgroups, fileshare sites, boards, etc.

i believe for the future, smart money finds where the balance is. you want it easily viewed by the paying customer. but you also want it watermarked and find that line between easily viewed by a noob, but enough of a challenge to capture to deter the casual thief.

the determined thief is going to steal your stuff no matter what. likewise there's a very large segment of people out there who absolutely will not pay for content, you'll never force 'em to do so. dont cost yourself paying customers trying to do so.