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Started by Wicked Arcade Jan 29, 2004 at 1:18 PM 2 replies 500+ views
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Wicked Arcade
Wicked Arcade
I am thinking about making an email magazine which concentrates on Game Design in writing, design etc... The people buy it online and are sent it as an email. A feature allows peopel to not copy the email and distribute it. I need some people to help me make it please. Contact me at Ben@Wickedarcae.co.uk and we can talk more! Thank you if you help! Email me!!
WICKED PUBLISHING!INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERAND GAME DEVELOPMENT TEAMBen@Wickedarcade.co.uk
bob_the_third
bob_the_third
How do you intend to copy-protect the email? About the only way I could think of would be to distribute an encrypted file in your own proprietary format that your special magazine reader software would decrypt and read, displaying in a window, but NOT as selectable text. That way they''d just be able to read it on the screen. Or you might even let them print, but still not select it. Of course if someone was really desparate they could always:

A. Take screenshots and distribute those, unless you somehow manage to disable that too; I think this is unlikely.

B. Hack your program to grab a decrypted version of the magazine or the encryption key itself. I don''t know how likely this is.

My guess is that as long as SOME form of copy-protection is in place you won''t really have to worry about people copying your work, even if it is possible.

Now the big question is whether people will pay for the emails.
-silencer-
-silencer-
You''re better off making a website with user access they have to pay for.. anyone can copy anything that appears on their screen with the print-screen key and a paint program.

(silencer)

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