--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_...> wrote:
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Joseph Harrison
<buckleshoe_at_>
> wrote:
> > This might not be as big a deal as everyone thinks. The big
> question
> > isn't it whether it'll be ripped and shared, but can you sell
> enough
> > copies before that, or to those that feel buying the real CD is
> > important to at least cover costs if not profit.
>
>
> Precisely. A typical paper folio costs me a little over ten
bucks
> to produce (each one!). An entire cd would cost significantly
less.
> But there's still the issue of illegal redistribution. I wonder
if I
> could put a bunch of nasty viruses into the images, only
executable if
> the images are copied from the cd onto a computer or posted
online?
> Hmmm... >;P
>
> --JMH, just kidding. Maybe.
>
You know with a Hex editor it is pretty easy to encode information
into a Jpeg. Maybe someone here could write a little app that Jim
could use to encode the buyer's name onto each of the pictures in
the collection, and then call winrar to create their own
personalized copy. (I find its command line functions useful)
Then if someone does a buy-n-download, they could be notified that
there would be a $300 surcharge if *their* copy of any/all of the
pictures appeared online
Received on Tue Apr 29 2008 - 03:00:49 CDT