Selling a complete gallery on disc...

ElginetPhotos

Does anyone have any idea how you can sell an entire gallery on a disc, but copy-protect it so that disc could not simply be copied and distributed?

Thanks...

jfriend

ElginetPhotos wrote:

Does anyone have any idea how you can sell an entire gallery on a disc, but copy-protect it so that disc could not simply be copied and distributed?

Thanks...

No, there is no practical way for someone like you and I to do this.

Look at the mess that the music industry made trying to copy protect CDs. It cost millions to try to develop, then messed up user's PCs, then got abandoned because people didn't want to buy CDs that would mess with their PCs in order to install copy protection stuff.

The movie industry got in early with the hardware business and got legislation passed forcing all hardware that could play a DVD to participate in their protection schemes. That's the only "imperfect" way to do this.

The software business has the benefit of executable code that makes their app work and they can put stuff to protect themselves into that code. You don't have that benefit with a CD of images. You could look into embedding your images into a PDF file and using some of the protections available in a PDF file/reader. In the end, anything displayed on the screen can be borrowed with a screen shot.

If you are selling to commercial interests, you can generally believe that as long as you make it clear to everyone what their rights and obligations are, they don't want to get their businesses into legal trouble because that's just a pain for them and will cost them money.

If you are selling to individual consumers, there's not a lot you can do other than make it very legally clear what their rights and obligations are.