Posted by kjk on 07/20/07 13:48

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:14:03 -0700, cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info>
wrote:

>On Jul 17, 12:47 pm, kjk <kjkREM...@usa.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:31:06 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"
>>
>> <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >On 2007-07-17, kjk wrote:
>>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> > Please read <http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html>.
>>
>> > An excerpt:
>>
>> > "every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales
>> > of all the CDs go up. A lot."
>>
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>>
>> That looks good. I printed it out and I'll have to read it carefully,
>> along with the followup. Thanks. Maybe I can add a music store to
>> the website and sell CDs.
>
>
>If you were to add music sales, of course you will need secure pages
>before anyone will submit payment information to your site. If you use
>secure pages such as banks and credit card companies use, there is yet
>another layer of protection you can use. The computer for which the
>person having a secure id and password can be detected. Even if
>someone gets the password information, they will not be connected on
>any other computer unless they apply on the new computer for use on
>it, get an access number by email, and enter it on the new computer.
>Then they may be asked for some additional information such as the
>mother's maiden name, etc before being allowed to use the new
>computer. A major credit card company in the US is now doing this.
>Often you can avoid problems with computers with script turned off by
>saying something of the sort that script must be on to download music.
>If script is on, then it is used to switch this statement to hidden.
>If script is off, the statement remains on, but other portions of the
>site can be used. In some cases you can avoid the script off problem
>by using server side script such as php.
>As mentioned by others, one way to reduce unauthorized commericial use
>is to reduce the sound quality which is easy to do with a mp3 using a
>low sampling rate. Another way is to allow playing only a few sample
>songs if you are trying to sell a CD. Another way is to allow playing
>just a short bit of a song. These technique are being used by Amazon
>and Google for sales of audio and video.

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Thanks for the info, and also for your previous link to

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

I may be clueless, as previously stated by Neredbojias, but that's
exactly why I ask for help on usenet. If the questioner is seriously
trying to learn something, there are no stupid questions here . . .
only some stupid answers.

Ken

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