[osflash] SWF protection techniques

[Stefan Richter]

Nice!
I'd like to hug you!

Stefan
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org 
> [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of Jim Berkey
> Sent: 10 February 2006 20:42
> To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF protection techniques
> 
> No, the code wouldn't work on that game so I removed it - 
> it's too old (version 4 or 5) - try leeching this:
> http://jimbo.us/Games/Test.swf
> http://jimbo.us/Games/Test.fla
> http://jimbo.us/Games/Test.html
> 
> 
> :-)))))
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan Richter" <stefan at flashcomguru.com>
> To: "'Open Source Flash Mailing List'" <osflash at osflash.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF protection techniques
> 
> 
> Is this code meant to protect from leeching? If so then 
> that's not working:
> http://www.flashcomguru.com/swf_leech.htm
> Runs quite well and it's not even using my own bandwidth 
> (I'll remove it
> shortly, don't worry).
> 
> Good topic though: has anyone found a reliable, crossbrowser 
> way to stop swf
> leeching reliably? I know of mod_rewrite but that's Apache only, any
> Windows/IIS implementations don't appear to work cross browser.
> I'd like to see a reliable way to read the HTML container's 
> address, check
> if it's allowed and act upon it. Something that can be added 
> to a swf to
> 'bind' the it to a certain domain even when it's leeched like 
> the game above
> would be nice.
> 
> Ok, don't trust the client and all that but for my needs it 
> would actually
> suffice. Ideas?
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org
> > [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] On Behalf Of Jim Berkey
> > Sent: 10 February 2006 18:39
> > To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [osflash] SWF protection techniques
> >
> > A little bit of actionscript can do that.
> > Heres a little game you can play in a browser window on my
> > site, but cannot play in a browser window on any other url,
> > or from any local hard drive:
> > http://jimbo.us/Games/WordSearch.html
> > http://jimbo.us/Games/WordSearch.swf
> >
> > Does this do what you want?
> > Code on first frame:
> >
> > protocol = _url.substr(0, _url.indexOf(":")); if (protocol ==
> > "file") {  message = "It seems you are trying out this game
> > on your local hard disk.
> > This game will only work if played on Jimbo.us - Press 'Esc'
> > to close."; } else if (protocol == "http") {  doubleSlash =
> > _url.indexOf("//");  server = _url.substr(doubleSlash+2,
> > _url.indexOf("/",
> > doubleSlash+2)-doubleSlash-2);
> >  server = server.toUpperCase();
> >  if (server.indexOf("WWW.") != -1) {
> >   server = server.substr(server.indexOf("WWW.")+4,
> > server.length);  }  // end if  if 
> (server.indexOf("JIMBO.US") != -1) {
> >   gotoAndStop(3); // this is the real 'first frame' of the
> > content  } else {
> >   message = "Hey Dood! This movie\'s copyrights are being
> > infringed! A message is being sent to the author that you
> > have copied his work.
> > \nOffending website path: "+_url;
> >  }
> > }
> >
> > code on second frame, with a dynamic text box instance name 
> 'message'
> > stop();
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marcelo de Moraes Serpa" <celoserpa at yahoo.com.br>
> > To: <osflash at osflash.org>
> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:00 PM
> > Subject: [osflash] SWF protection techniques
> >
> >
> > Well, I know this is an fairly old question, but I´ve never
> > really seen
> > any definitive solution for this problem at all and I´m not 
> sure there
> > is one. Now that my application is near deploying, I would 
> be grateful
> > if anyone could point me to techniques (server and 
> client-side) on how
> > could I protect them from stealing and restrict public vieweing (for
> > example:  if I only want the SWF to be viewed inside the HTML
> > container
> > - don´t allow the user to browse the swf alone, maybe putting
> > the swf on
> > a non-public dir, but then I guess I would need to use a 
> php script to
> > wrap the movie So the html could open it?)...
> >
> > - Marcelo.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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