How do i Make Shared files Un Copyable?

Set · Post by **Set** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:48 am

Bunch of Mp3 i wanna make assessable acrost my home Network. (Via a Shard Folder on my server) But i don't want the Browsers To be able to copy the mp3s to there Hard Drives Just stream over the network

all boxes Xp

Any way of doing this?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:53 am

What you want goes against the nature of how applications work. A file on another computer, to be opened, must be copied, even if only in ram and virtual memory.

Many progranms use the windows temp folders for such actions, while the browser uses the temp internet files and makes a copy of the streaming media.

stevebakh · Post by **stevebakh** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:49 pm

There are applications which will stream audio files (mp3s) across your network so they are essentially buffered and streamed - pretty much like streamed audio / video on the internet.

I've only seen such applications for Apache web servers running in Linux, but I'm pretty certain that if you did a quick google, you would probably find a vast range of programs that could do a similar job.

Set · Post by **Set** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:24 pm

I don't mind if the OS copys it to temps
I just want them unable to copy and past it

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:39 pm

You could make them "accessable" through a webpage instead of as "shared files" on the network

The code could be written into the html to disallow right click options (Tony can help with that)
There are ways to circumvent this approach, but the average user will not have options to save any files.

kalbster · Post by **kalbster** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:14 pm

Can't you do that with Real Player?

I tried to copy a message on Real Player that I listened so I could listen to it off-line. but when I clicked on it, it just took me to the site again to reload it.

I don't know if that's that's your looking for?

FunK · Post by **FunK** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:32 pm

Yeah, I don't think you could really do it too well by sharing the folder / files.

I would look into a webpage / streaming solution. They would have to use their browser to access the files. Check hotscripts.com for html/asp/php solutions.. Of course you would need IIS or anther webserver application to actually allow http requests....