Re: Restrictions on links on Net/WWW

>>Scott Fedewa writes:
>>>
>>>Is there a way to allow users to browse but not to copy? This could
>>>be the sort of technological answer we need to this new technological
>>>conundrum.
>
>
>Tim Arnold-Moore responds:
>>
>>Most computers allow you to `screen-dump' i.e. print whatever is
>>displayed on the screen.
>>
>>Even the best protected programs cannot prevent this with any
>>certainty on every possible display device.
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>It seems to me that it ought to be possible to distribute self-corrupting
>data, which becomes unreadable after a time. [This is analogous to the
>"software bombs" gaining in popularity of late]. Would this solve the
>problem? Or can it be countered too easily?
>
>Mark Lemley
>Assistant Professor
>University of Texas School of Law
>mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu

I wouldn't stop a screen dump, which merely copies the output sent to your monitor, not the file from which it was generated.

  --buford

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