Re: how to prevent save and copy of MS Word documents
- From: "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:08:48 +0300
*ANY* document that you allow a user to see can be copied. It doesn't matter
what application you use. The only way to stop people from copying the
material the document contains is never to let them see it. It's a simple as
that and there's no use expending any more time and money on it. You can
deter the casual copier, but anyone who really wants that content will have
it.
It's the same with the music/video industries. Some companies have spent a
fortune trying to prevent copying. It doesn't and cannot work.
Take BMG Records (please!). They introduced a CD protection system that was
supposed to prevent copying. It simply screwed up the sound for the genuine
customers - and the pirates simply played it in real time and recorded the
analogue signal (though good ripping software dealt with most of it) which
for most users (especially when compressed to mp3 for iPod use) would be
indistinguishable from the flawed original - so no-one wins.
Then it introduced the possibility of virus vulnerability with a software
patch to enable the discs to be played on a PC. I hear that BMG was
eventually deterred by a class action by PC users - and not by the fact that
they were insulting their genuine customers by producing a shoddy product.
This copy protection has been removed for the moment, but it will
undoubtedly be back in another guise, passing the cost of that failure to
the customer. Grrrrr!.
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susan.d wrote:
Thank you Cindy and Karl for your comments.
It looks like it is time to consider conversion to another format.
"Cindy Meister" wrote:
Hi Susan
Karl's basically on-target, here. Word was designed to edit, not
view, text. If you were talking Word 2003 instead of Word 2.0, then
you'd stand a chance with IRM (Rights management). But that's as
close as you're going to get with Word.
The other thing to look at would be saving them all in Word 2003 XML
format, then when calling from the database transform them into a
file format for software you consider "safe enough".
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-- Cindy
"susan.d" wrote:
Sorry, I should have mentioned that the documents are stored in a
database, accessed by a custom application and that application
must allow the users to view the documents without being able to
edit, copy/paste or save the document. I tried the newer MS Word
Viewer, but it does not have a means to disable copy/paste, and it
allows 'open for edit' in MS Word if MS Word is on the same system.
"Karl E. Peterson" wrote:
susan.d wrote:
I need to be able to load old MS Word 2.0 documents for viewing
purposes, but prevent the user from saving or doing a copy/paste.
Does anyone have any ideas on how that can be achieved?
Burn 'em to CD, before letting your users have access.
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