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Posted by Ed Mullen on 07/18/07 02:15
kjk wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:27:53 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>
>> kjk wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:13:22 GMT, kjk <kjkREMOVE@usa.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody tell me how to modify the following code in order to make
>>>> the popup window persistently float above all other windows?
>>>>
>>>> <a href="javascript:openjukebox('audio/Memories and Messages.htm',
>>>> 'jukebox', 'toolbar=0, location=0, directories=0, status=0, menubar=0,
>>>> scrollbars=0, resizable=0, copyhistory=0, left=10, top=10, screenX=0,
>>>> screenY=0, width=300, height=120')">Memories and Messages</a>
>>>>
>>>> Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>> Finally, some real answers. Thank you Jonathan and cwdjrxyz, and for
>>> the benefit of both of you, I will try to remember not to top post.
>>> There was a time, back in the dinosaur days, when a technical question
>>> on usenet would immediately receive dozens of purely technical
>>> answers. Today, it seems, usenet has gradually moved closer to being
>>> a kiddie chat site.
>>>
>>> It is possible that I didn't state my question technically accurately.
>>> The purpose of the above code is as follows:
>>>
>>> I maintain a simple family website which includes some audio files of
>>> family musicians, some quite talented. With very limited HTML skills,
>>> I'm trying to put together a music player that will allow family
>>> members to listen to those files while browsing the site, to select
>>> the next audio file that they'd like to hear, using a window that
>>> remains accessible at all times, while not interfering with the page
>>> that they're viewing, while also not allowing them to capture the
>>> audio file, some of which may be commercially viable. It's possible
>>> that this particular use of a persistent window may even be acceptable
>>> to the folks at alt.html.
>>>
>>> The above code is the beginning of that process. I have no idea
>>> whether this is technically possible, but I do know that in my early
>>> computer days I learned a whole lot from usenet, so I thought that I'd
>>> ask what I perceived to be an innocent question.
>>>
>>> If anybody here can provide any additional helpful technical info, I'd
>>> sure like to hear it. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>> I have a variety of .mp3 files on my site. If someone wants to listen
>> to them while browsing other pages (or other sites) they just open the
>> music page in a new tab, click the songs, and browse elsewhere in
>> another tab. Or, just download all the .mp3 files to their own hard
>> drive and setup their own play list in their favorite music player.
>>
>> I think you're probably trying to make the solution far more complex
>> than it needs to be. But, hey, if you're having fun ...! ;-)
>
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>
> Security is not about fun. Some of our audio files may be
> commercially viable, and I'm trying to do whatever I can to protect
> the artist from unauthorized commercial use. I understand that, with
> some technical knowledge, nothing is completely foolproof, but I want
> to make it as difficult as possible for the MP3 file to be captured to
> a casual listeners computer. The website is password protected, the
> javascript points to an HTM file, the HTM file points to an M3U file,
> the M3U file points to the MP3 file, so the average computer user
> would have some difficulty trying to locate and get at the MP3 file.
> If the MP3 file is playing in the listeners audio player, it's a
> simple process to Save As.
I'm sorry, if a link on your site points me to a .m3u file, what makes
you think you can dictate how my system will handle that? Regardless,
if it's playing through my computer's sound system (no matter /what/ the
method) I *can* capture it. And so can anyone else using free software
readily available.
If the site is password protected then you, presumably, trust the people
to whom you give the password, right? I mean, I wouldn't be giving a pw
to someone I thought would possibly steal from me.
Your premise is that going to all this work and jumping through all
these hoops is to protect you from an "average user" making unauthorized
commercial use of the music. I doubt that anyone who would do that
would be an "average user."
Good grief. Slap copyright notices on the music links and be done with
it until you hear a stolen work on the radio: Then start suing everyone
in sight.
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Ed Mullen
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