safe guarding photos

I was wondering if anyone knew of any software available for securing
photo viewing. My cousin had shown me some photos of her dance
recital that were taken by a photographer. They were able to pick and
purchase certain photos from this photographer after viewing the
photos on the cd. The disk that the photos were contained on had an
expiration date which did not allow any further viewing of photos
after that particular date. The photos were also in bitmap and did
not allow for conversions or adjustments which discouraged downloading
the photos from the cd by the viewer. Just wondering if there was
software that would do this or if the photographer created the
software onhis own. I have wedding photos that still need to be
viewed by guests and finding this software would definitely make the
process easier!

Thanks in advance!

BJ wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knew of any software available for securing
photo viewing. My cousin had shown me some photos of her dance
recital that were taken by a photographer. They were able to pick and
purchase certain photos from this photographer after viewing the
photos on the cd. The disk that the photos were contained on had an
expiration date which did not allow any further viewing of photos
after that particular date. The photos were also in bitmap and did
not allow for conversions or adjustments which discouraged downloading
the photos from the cd by the viewer. Just wondering if there was
software that would do this or if the photographer created the
software onhis own. I have wedding photos that still need to be
viewed by guests and finding this software would definitely make the
process easier!

Thanks in advance!

Hi...

I suspect it's proshow gold... allows you to set a specific
number of days that you can view it; then a password to
unlock it after that.

Ken

(BJ) writes:

I was wondering if anyone knew of any software available for
securing photo viewing. My cousin had shown me some photos of her
dance recital that were taken by a photographer. They were able to
pick and purchase certain photos from this photographer after
viewing the photos on the cd. The disk that the photos were
contained on had an expiration date which did not allow any further
viewing of photos after that particular date. The photos were also
in bitmap and did not allow for conversions or adjustments which
discouraged downloading the photos from the cd by the viewer. Just
wondering if there was software that would do this or if the
photographer created the software onhis own. I have wedding photos
that still need to be viewed by guests and finding this software
would definitely make the process easier!

Bet it doesn't work against a user with the *tiniest eensy bit* of
computer knowledge. Of course they can't get anything better than the
version of the image you put on the disk -- screen resolution, not
printing resolution, I'd hope. So don't worry about it! Go for
convenience instead, that'll make a *much* bigger difference in sales.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/
Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/

(BJ) writes:

I was wondering if anyone knew of any software available for
securing photo viewing. My cousin had shown me some photos of her
dance recital that were taken by a photographer. They were able to
pick and purchase certain photos from this photographer after
viewing the photos on the cd. The disk that the photos were
contained on had an expiration date which did not allow any further
viewing of photos after that particular date. The photos were also
in bitmap and did not allow for conversions or adjustments which
discouraged downloading the photos from the cd by the viewer. Just
wondering if there was software that would do this or if the
photographer created the software onhis own. I have wedding photos
that still need to be viewed by guests and finding this software
would definitely make the process easier!

Bet it doesn't work against a user with the *tiniest eensy bit* of
computer knowledge. Of course they can't get anything better than the
version of the image you put on the disk -- screen resolution, not
printing resolution, I'd hope. So don't worry about it! Go for
convenience instead, that'll make a *much* bigger difference in sales.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/
Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/

David Dyer-Bennet wrote in :

Bet it doesn't work against a user with the *tiniest eensy bit* of
computer knowledge. Of course they can't get anything better than the
version of the image you put on the disk -- screen resolution, not
printing resolution, I'd hope. So don't worry about it! Go for
convenience instead, that'll make a *much* bigger difference in sales.

Maybe. Or it might use the technology that they used to use on terraserver
some years ago. It encrypted the data and used a special viewer that
somehow avoided all attempts to screen capture. Other than photographing
the monitor, that is.

4 years ago to the day:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...=8pltlk%244d9%
241%40mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dg:thl1662561309d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie% 3DUTF-8%26selm%3D8pltlk%
25244d9%25241%2540mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com

http://tinyurl.com/6mrch

Bob

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David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

(BJ) writes:


I was wondering if anyone knew of any software available for
securing photo viewing. My cousin had shown me some photos of her
dance recital that were taken by a photographer. They were able to
pick and purchase certain photos from this photographer after
viewing the photos on the cd. The disk that the photos were
contained on had an expiration date which did not allow any further
viewing of photos after that particular date. The photos were also
in bitmap and did not allow for conversions or adjustments which
discouraged downloading the photos from the cd by the viewer. Just
wondering if there was software that would do this or if the
photographer created the software onhis own. I have wedding photos
that still need to be viewed by guests and finding this software
would definitely make the process easier!


Bet it doesn't work against a user with the *tiniest eensy bit* of
computer knowledge. Of course they can't get anything better than the
version of the image you put on the disk -- screen resolution, not
printing resolution, I'd hope. So don't worry about it! Go for
convenience instead, that'll make a *much* bigger difference in sales.

Hi...

Agreed. Very much the lock on your front door. Keeps
honest people out.

Ken

How about change your computer date to avoid the expiration date.

bob writes:

David Dyer-Bennet wrote in :

Bet it doesn't work against a user with the *tiniest eensy bit* of
computer knowledge. Of course they can't get anything better than the
version of the image you put on the disk -- screen resolution, not
printing resolution, I'd hope. So don't worry about it! Go for
convenience instead, that'll make a *much* bigger difference in sales.

Maybe. Or it might use the technology that they used to use on terraserver
some years ago. It encrypted the data and used a special viewer that
somehow avoided all attempts to screen capture. Other than photographing
the monitor, that is.

Which means a number of people can't view it *at all*.

Besides, I can probably do screen capture.

I can *certainly* do screen capture while running VMware under Linux
-- because I do the screen capture at the X level rather than the
windows level.

I saved a number of terraserver pictures with no trouble, I don't
remember them having done anything special (they may have done
different things at different times).

4 years ago to the day:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...=8pltlk%244d9%
241%40mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dg:thl1662561309d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie% 3DUTF-8%26selm%3D8pltlk%
25244d9%25241%2540mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com

http://tinyurl.com/6mrch

Huh, wasn't I in that thread? Or maybe it was another thread or
another group; I've certainly discussed this online before! Guess it
must have been.

I notice that, in that thread, someone showed he'd captured
terraserver images with no great problem, without even resorting to a
virtual windows machine.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/
RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/
Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/
Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/

David Dyer-Bennet wrote in
:

bob writes:

Maybe. Or it might use the technology that they used to use on
terraserver some years ago. It encrypted the data and used a special
viewer that somehow avoided all attempts to screen capture. Other
than photographing the monitor, that is.

Which means a number of people can't view it *at all*.


Yes, well you can see they have changed their business model. Before some
people could see an exact screen image of what they would buy, and paying
unlocked it. Now you just see a very low resolution screen image and buy
on faith that the full resolution will be acceptable.


Besides, I can probably do screen capture.

I can *certainly* do screen capture while running VMware under Linux
-- because I do the screen capture at the X level rather than the
windows level.

No. You would have been one of the people who just couldn't see the data,
because there wasn't a Linux plugin to decrypt the data. If you had
enough time, I suppose you could capture the packets (in Windows) and do
a brute force decryption on them.

I saved a number of terraserver pictures with no trouble, I don't
remember them having done anything special (they may have done
different things at different times).

terraserver.microsoft.com (now terraserver-usa.com) has always had free
unprotected public domain images.

terraserver.com is a completely different company, and they have always
had paid access.

4 years ago to the day:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...dm=8pltlk%244d
9% 241%40mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dg:thl1662561309d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie% 3DUTF-8%26selm%3D8pl
tlk% 25244d9%25241%2540mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com

http://tinyurl.com/6mrch

Huh, wasn't I in that thread? Or maybe it was another thread or
another group; I've certainly discussed this online before! Guess it
must have been.

I notice that, in that thread, someone showed he'd captured
terraserver images with no great problem, without even resorting to a
virtual windows machine.

Yes, but he didn't capture the high res images, only the low res preview.
No one in that thread was able to capture un-munged hi res images using
any method.

Bob

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David Dyer-Bennet wrote in
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bob writes:

Maybe. Or it might use the technology that they used to use on
terraserver some years ago. It encrypted the data and used a special
viewer that somehow avoided all attempts to screen capture. Other
than photographing the monitor, that is.

Which means a number of people can't view it *at all*.


Yes, well you can see they have changed their business model. Before some
people could see an exact screen image of what they would buy, and paying
unlocked it. Now you just see a very low resolution screen image and buy
on faith that the full resolution will be acceptable.


Besides, I can probably do screen capture.

I can *certainly* do screen capture while running VMware under Linux
-- because I do the screen capture at the X level rather than the
windows level.

No. You would have been one of the people who just couldn't see the data,
because there wasn't a Linux plugin to decrypt the data. If you had
enough time, I suppose you could capture the packets (in Windows) and do
a brute force decryption on them.

I saved a number of terraserver pictures with no trouble, I don't
remember them having done anything special (they may have done
different things at different times).

terraserver.microsoft.com (now terraserver-usa.com) has always had free
unprotected public domain images.

terraserver.com is a completely different company, and they have always
had paid access.

4 years ago to the day:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...dm=8pltlk%244d
9% 241%40mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%
3Dg:thl1662561309d%26dq%3D%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie% 3DUTF-8%26selm%3D8pl
tlk% 25244d9%25241%2540mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com

http://tinyurl.com/6mrch

Huh, wasn't I in that thread? Or maybe it was another thread or
another group; I've certainly discussed this online before! Guess it
must have been.

I notice that, in that thread, someone showed he'd captured
terraserver images with no great problem, without even resorting to a
virtual windows machine.

Yes, but he didn't capture the high res images, only the low res preview.
No one in that thread was able to capture un-munged hi res images using
any method.

Bob

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