Disable Copying, Pasting And Saving In Pdf With Drm Systems

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Image, word, and html processing tools provide us with the copy-paste function but which has in turn provided the easiest way to pirate digital information. Because of this, many authors desire a system that will disable copying. An effective way to achieving this is having a DRM system that can stop the print screen function, control use of menu items and the right click-copy function. One good thing with preventing the copy operation is that we simultaneously disable paste; this is true because if there is nothing copied, then there is nothing to be pasted. This benefit to some extent also spills over onto the disable save and save as functions.

Further, we can also disable copying by inhibiting the screen grabber function but this is somewhat difficult as it is a completely different way of copying the screen’s contents. Nonetheless, the screen grabber can be inhibited through a combination of techniques which involve presenting the screen grabber with a false image and removing any content from the Windows clipboard. Any platform aimed at effectively ...
... disabling the copy-paste function must involve these two measures. With reference to what was mentioned earlier, we need not develop systems to disable paste if we can effectively control the copy function; to some degree we will have managed to disable save because users will find it difficult to copy protected files.

Preventing saving also serves as a way to disable copying as the ability to save a file in decrypted format is prevented. Some of the techniques used to disable save and save as include the use of plug-ins which alter the code (that is used to access a protected file) in the main application. However, as we may all know, there is always a plug-in available to counter the function of another plug-in. The perfect way to disable save would therefore be if the save function code is not available in the first place. However, since many document viewing platforms do have the ‘save’ function then publishers will need a special/proprietary viewer that is devoid of the save operation.

Despite having the ability to disable copy-paste we cannot fully disable copy in the Windows File Explorer environment, meaning that people can still make copies of a protected file. These files however cannot be used by unauthorized users so there is no need to disable the save and save as function in Explorer. With reference to access control mechanisms, we cannot disable save and save as to prevent the moving of PDF documents, HTML web pages and swf flash files to external locations such as memory sticks and network drives, but copies of protected files cannot be made without the DRM controls such as watermarking becoming implemented.

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