Since
the release of Secure Image Artistscope has been working on
closing the remaining door on illegal image capture, the
prevention of screen capture.
Preventing screen capture is not a simple thing as the image
appears in different areas of memory and Java cannot access
system level commands. Several offshore programmers were
invited to help develop a plug in that controlled the
clipboard and cache. After many dead ends we finally found a
team in India were interested in taking on the job.
We now have the plug in and can put an end to copying. The
plug in cannot do the entire job alone and is used in
conjunction with a special version of Secure Image. The
combined effectiveness of the two systems creates a perfectly
safe environment. The prototype has been tested against all
known screen capture programs and is completely secure.
There is still some work to do in marrying the two systems.
Then we have to set up support facilities and distribution for
the plug in. The plug in will be available freely on the
Internet to anyone visiting a protected site.
The new program will be released as CopySafe
and will run from any web site, even a home page. CopySafe
will safe from all avenues of copying including capture.
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