ID:136662
 Jun 30 2002, 6:12 pm
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A good feature for BYOND would be to disable the Print Screen button. Or if that isn't able to do, the client screen shows up as black. This will protect people's original icons on their games.
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Jun 30 2002, 6:16 pm
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Nadrew
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There is no possible way to stop someone from getting a screen shot of your game, there are many external programs that can work around this.
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Of course, no one ever realizes that every computer comes with a "prt scr" key on the keyboard. Can you guess what that does?
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Usually, I would just go up to Options->Capture Map Screenshot...
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scarily enough, NO @.@ at least not on mine... *L* what it usually does is dump the current screen into your clipboard so you can paste it to another proggie like paint ^^;
*tests it* Yep, thats what it does ^^; El | |
I think you can do one of the toggle keys (shift, ctrl, alt) with print screen to capture only the topmost window. Not like that matters.
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actually there is a way around this
if you use the win32 api function GetAsyncKeyState(), you can recieve any key on the keyboard at any point, when its pressed. This way, the dream seeker can detect when a user hits the Prnt Scrn button, dream seeker can actually detect that key was hit, then FillRect(DC,Rect,GetStockObject(4)) on the surface, and bang, all the person gets is black. Pretty easy to implement i might add. edit-> Oh, and GetStockObject(4) will recieve the Black_Brush object, built into the GDI. This will fill the specified rectangle on the specified Device Context with Blackness. | |
FIREking wrote:
actually there is a way around this Someone still can write a program to just dump the current video memory to a bitmap bypassing the need for the printscreen button. I'm sure there are already programs that preform this now. | |
yeah, you have a point there
but ive seen several different types of movie formats that if you use anything to try and get a still picture from a point in the movie, it wont work. I suspect it somehow protects the Screen's DC, which is 0. | |
FIREking wrote:
yeah, you have a point there Well no mater how much time you spend trying to protect a piece of data there will always be a way to get around it you just need to outsmart the protection scheme. The more time you spend working on the protection scheme the more steal attempts you can avert, but I think this is a feature that will take too much work for its worth. | |
at least we can make it harder to do
by preventing the prnt scrn method, we would probably stop most attempts by simple users. maybe, using logic here, if we make it harder to get the screen shot, the users wont want to waste their time on trying to steal graphics in the first place. Isnt that the IRAA's theory to stopping pirating? Last i heard, IRAA and FCC plan to increase the price of bandwidth in an attempt to stop pirating music and software. Shows how smart these organizations/companies are. | |
Last i heard, IRAA and FCC plan to increase the price of bandwidth in an attempt to stop pirating music and software. Shows how smart these organizations/companies are. Yes, yes it does. Very "smart" of them. | |
Oh well, I guess I just rememberd a while back I just set my keyboard to use alt-f12 to screenshot and prnt screen to actually print the screen.
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It would also make sure you have no visible proof that someone is messing around. Sure there are log sessions but what if the horses ass doesnt say anything?
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smart, being that they get a lot of cash
but not smart because they will lose customers and lose cash, AND instead of pirating music and software, most of our lovely pirates will be figuring out ways to pirvate connections to the internet. so instead of stopping piracy, they add a little to the mix | |
Dareb wrote:
Sure there are log sessions but what if the horses ass doesnt say anything? So far that doesn't seem to be a problem. Lummox JR | |
FIREking wrote:
at least we can make it harder to do I think you mean the RIAA. I'm not sure what you're getting at here, though. You step all over your own point in a later post by saying that the RIAA's tactics are self-defeating. In essence you're saying "We should raise the bar, but that's going to make the problem worse." You're right that raising the bar is their approach, though. The problem is that it's stupid; they're strangling fair use doctrine, which worked fine for years, just to cut off people whose activities don't pose a threat to the industry at all; indeed, sharing has increased music sales. The real threats to the industry are professional pirates, who operate particularly overseas and are very technically skilled. Nothing will protect products from professional piracy except actually going after the professional pirates. Lummox JR | |