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I think the simple answer is that there is no easy solution to your problem. You can password, encrypt, or convert to a specific reader format but at the end of the day, your paying customers have to be able to view them.
IP content providers are protected by copyright, which is an ugly road to pursue even for large companies. Your product protection depends on your market. If it's something that millions of people might buy, you create your pricing to be attractive to the customers and make it a 'no-brainer'. Most people aren't going to jump through a lot of hoops to save a $3 cost. In a smaller market where the cost per user may be higher, you're relying on the "professionalism" of your customers.
It's impossible to create a digital document that is not copyable at some level. A password keeps someone from just posting a link to the document, but doesn't stop them from blatantly publishing the password. An activation key works well on large documents but still doesn't defeat snip 'n sketch.
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Yup, contact the RIAA etc and ask how goes the war on the DRM front.
Make paying as easy as possible, accept everything you can.
There is probably? negative-ROI on trying to encrypt the PDF files. You'll invest more in effort than you save in preventing thievery.
It might? be better to provide authenticated access to a webserver that turns the documents into pictures and shows them in a browser. Nothing will stop a screen grab but depending on the info and the value of having it as actual text it might (moreso than encrypting PDF files) make it worth your PDF price tag.
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Wordle 726 4/6
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Wordle 726 5/6
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Wordle 726 4/6*
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That was pure luck: loads of options for that last one!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 15-Jun-23 3:44am.
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Wordle 726 4/6*
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Wordle 726 5/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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#Worldle #509 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Extravagant teacher with battery, element opening. (10)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Profligate ?
Don't entirely get the clue but, this is what I have
Definition extravagant
Teacher = Prof
Element = li (list item element or battery)
Opening = gate
I read it as both element and, element opening
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 14-Jun-23 4:20am.
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My thinking was Li as in "battery element". The old cruciverbalist's distracting comma didn't work, obviously.
YAUT!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I always ignore punctuation - I think you and I have been doing cryptic crosswords a long time ( ~ 55 years for me )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Let's see who you really are ...[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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God I'd forgotten about him
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Good job, Sherlock. I even know his grandmother's name: ELIZA. Ran it just a few days ago on a TRS 80.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Ran it just a few days decades ago on a TRS 80.
FTFY.
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Nope. Really just a few days ago. But of course I feel dirty now. A Z80 processor the ENEMY*, just as awful as anything Intel ever produced.
* Let's start a more than 45 years old nerd war over 8 bit processors again! That used to be fun. Only code running on your self built computer is allowed as an argument. **
** I'm more than prepared for that )
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I must be the only person on the planet who liked Clippy.
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Nope. There are many of us out there.
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i obtained a new computer today . a Windows laptop . start up required some sort of "Account" registration procedure which requested an e-mail address . so i provided same . it then requested a password for said e-mail address. so i provided the password to the e-mail address account . it refused to accept it . i was afraid the laptop would become a door stop . only several hours later did it occur to me the "Account" to which it referred was my Microsoft Account not the e-mail account . that password worked Bingo Presto . what a relief . what a sigh of consternation the UI designers at Dell or Microsoft or whoever wrote the registration UI did not think to present instructions my grand-mother would understand . "Please enter password to Microsoft Account associated w/ e-mail address ..." instead of "Please enter password of e-mail address ..." amazing . this is 2023 last i checked . UI should be well understood by now . it just now occurred to me not even Microsoft would request password to an e-mail account . boy am i stupid . the laptop confused me . i felt out of place w/ it as i only feel comfortable w/ a desktop . i do not believe i would make such a mistake otherwise .
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