Preventing the unauthorized copying of your documents

Unauthorized copying of documents is a nagging bane for many authors and especially those attempting to publish on the Internet. Pirates have had an easy time copying and sharing authors works without permission, and of course, without compensating them. Private institutions and companies are not spared from this vice either. Document encryption software can be embraced in such situations to act as security software thus frustrating attempts to copy a document without the owner’s consent.

You need security software to protect your documents from unauthorized use. The best method of protection goes beyond mere encryption, and this is because once an authorized recipient has decrypted the document he/she can use it in any way he/she wants. You can limit this by using document encryption software from www.locklizard.com. With our software you can limit the usage of a copy protected document by preventing activities like printing, copying and transferring, and even dictating the number of times the document can be viewed. With this advanced security implementation you will certainly enjoy better control over your copy protected documents.

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Disable Printing of Your PDF Documents with DRM Mechanisms

One of the concerns that many publishers have is that their content can without their consent, be printed and then photocopied and given to unauthorized users thus denying them a considerable portion of their due revenues. A system that can disable printing of their documents is therefore most desirable. In the Adobe Acrobat environment you can disable print but because Adobe uses password protection and passwords can be broken by the numerous password-cracking tools available, printing will go on unabated.

However, by using a non password-based DRM system from LockLizard you can comprehensively disable printing. With this software you can add PDF watermark dynamic user details that will enable you to identify the source of the illegal printouts. In cases where your clients may request to print your documents, say for the purposes of presentations, this LockLizard system gives you the ability to limit the amount of printouts that can be made and even prevent further document access upon depletion of print copies. What’s more, you can disable print in PDF, html and swf files. The add PDF watermark capability has long been an efficient anti piracy technique because all illegal contents are stamped with the username, company name, and even the date and time when the printing was done.

Comprehensive Web Content Protection from LockLizard Data Security Protection

Every organization with a website that contains training materials, service manuals, market reports, and so forth, should invest in data security protection mechanisms to prevent from copying the html contents and images they carry. Content protection also prevents unauthorized modifying of html content, helps you to decide if it can be printed, and if so, how many times this can be done, and controls the viewing of your web content and for how long e.g. days, months, years or forever.

LockLizard.com has such a data security protection system in its DRM-based Lizard Protector Web Security, and which also includes the capability to inhibit screen grabber and Windows print screen, thus preventing screenshots of your web contents from being taken. You will also love the fact that this web content protection system prevents printing to file, PDF, email, and other common image printers. The system further locks the web content to the authorized user’s computer and this ensures that it cannot be shared with any unauthorized user. The same locking system is also used to prevent from copying the decryption keys, and so unlike passwords they cannot be transferred to another person.

Considering the raging PDF ePub issue

In publishing their eBooks many editors are grappling over the issue of which format to have their creative in and thus the PDF ePub dilemma. Also known as Adobe Digital Edition, ePub is part of the adobe e-book platform that is used for authoring, protecting and delivering eBooks across different devices, and which is easily converted to Adobe PDF format. However, there already exist plenty of methods of removing Adept or ePub DRM security, thus exposing eBooks to all manner of content abuse including unauthorized viewing, copying, printing, sharing and so forth.

Until now there have not been significant developments aimed at making ePub DRM as successful as that of PDF, and while this has not dissuaded people from using it, the question that begs is how long it will take before an effective system is developed. When stuck on the PDF ePub divide for creating your document, it will serve you well to consider whether you need your eBooks to be a source of income or whether they will be freely available allowing for unrestricted copying and modification by all and sundry.

Protect Files – Total Security with Safeguard PDF Security

We need documentation security systems to protect files from unauthorized distribution in addition to determining what authorized users can do with them or for how long they can use them.

With Safeguard PDF Security from locklizard.com, some of the finer protect file aspects that you get to employ include controlling viewing, printing, copying, modifying, sharing, saving, determining PDF expiration dates, stopping print screen and screen grabbers, and stopping printing to file, image printers or PDF format. Such a system therefore gives you the power to decide when your documents can no longer be viewed, and whether they can be viewed offline or only online, and if this can occur in thin or virtual client environments. Similarly to the PDF expiration dates, you can also decide when user accounts will expire.

Safeguard PDF Security ensures that you can protect files sufficiently thanks its secure viewer which enforces the controls that you place on the document. This is not a password-based protect file system and thus you not exposed to various PDF security flaws that are typical of other systems.

Secured Document Sharing – Is it Possible?

In most circumstances publishers seek to use mechanisms that will help to stop forwarding of their documents. However, to merely stop sharing is not a comprehensive approach because there are circumstances where we need to share our documents, say for feedback purposes. For such situations we need a system that can guarantee secured document sharing such that it will regulate what users can do with documents.

Encrypting documents cannot stop forwarding because once a document is decrypted the unprotected version can easily be distributed to others. A document security system such as that from LockLizard.com, i.e. Safeguard PDF Security, does not only stop sharing but it also regulates the document functions available to the user thanks to its intertwined DRM control mechanism. This system sustains secured document sharing by locking files to individual computers so that access is only possible for authorized users.

About Copy Protection in Documentation Security Systems

In an effort to prevent the abuse of PDF documents, publishers are increasingly looking to document security systems to ensure that they get full value for their creative works. Top on the list for each system is that it should provide adequate copy protection considering that duplication is the easiest way to pirate documents.

We should appreciate that document encryption will not be sufficient in securing content since once the authorized user decrypts the document he/she can do anything with it besides just making copies. However, the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) controls can effectively address this vulnerability and as such any document security tool worth its salt must feature aspects of encryption and DRM controls.

It also suggested that these systems should feature a disable paste function in addition to the copy protection mechanism. However, a system that can adequately prevent copying should not need a disable paste mechanism because in the first place if you cannot copy a document then surely there will be nothing to paste!