ArtistScope Document Rights Management (DRM)
ArtistScope DRM revolutionised document access rights by doing
away with conventional methods and beginning with a fresh
approach to provide user rights of a document that would not
only be more secure, but to also enable total control over
precisely who can access and for how.
The ArtistScope DRM solution not only provides the most secure management
of access rights to a document but it also enables Total Control
in which the author can change or modify a user's permissions, a
user group's permissions or a document's access rules, with
immediate effect even on documents already downloaded and stored
on a user's computer.
ArtistScope DRM is unique and it's most effective. Unlike all
other DRM technologies that seemingly can be easily removed,
ArtistScope DRM is not exploitable. By now you may see similar
methods adopted by other protected document solutions and that's
understanbible even if they did claim that it was impossible for
two years before they learnt how, and they still claim to be
able to protect documents when they can't. But that's enough
about the amateurs in the copy protection industry, let's have a
look at how ArtistScope DRM can be employed to protect your
livelihood.
Originally the ArtistScope DRM solution was designed to protect
documents as well as web content. A logged in user could upload
all manner of media and depending on its file type, have it
converted for display while being copy protected from all manner
of copy and save methods. Unfortunately that solution was too
sophisticated even for the many developers sent by our
competitors to study how things worked, and one wonders how they
can get a computer science degree when they can't follow simple
instructions. So ArtistScope DRM was lightened to include
protection for documents only.
Protecting Documents with DRMMany use the term DRM
(digital rights management) to include copy protection, however
as the pioneer of copy protection for the Internet we can tell
you that DRM and copy protection are two
(2) completely different technologies. Rights management is
about a user's rights to access or open an application or
document while "copy protection" is about preventing the user
from making copies, and as such ArtistScope DRM is about
extending the protection of an application or document that is
already "copy protected" by applying a layer of protection to
prevent unauthorized use.
"Unauthorised use" is what DRM is all about. If WikiPedia says
differently it's because they can only get references from
existing resources who were misinformed amateurs to begin with. "Unauthorised use"
is about someone purchasing a copy of a document, book or
tutorial and then either sending it onto friends to use for free
or selling it as their own. Either way it's not in an author's
best interest and robbing them of their livelihood.
What ArtistScope DRM does for a Document
ArtistScope DRM is a web based solution that manages a user's
rights and privileges:
- Restrict which users or groups can have
a right to access
- Set expiry dates validated
by local time or by time server
- Allow or limit the number of views by a user or group
- Allow or limit the number of prints by
a user or group
- Allow or limit access by IP number or network
- Create additional accounts for
administrating users and documents
- Upload and convert almost any type of
document
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The ArtistScope DRM Portal
The
ArtistScope DRM Portal is the server side solution for
interpreting requests by the CopySafe PDF Reader when opening
protected documents that have been assigned DRM protection. The CopySafe PDF Reader
is a self sufficient without any dependencies when viewing
documents that are copy protected, but when DRM is applied
the reader will check the DRM Portal for a user's rights, and if
they have none then the document won't be opened.
The ArtistScope DRM Portal is available as software that can be purchased
for installation on your own server or it can rented as a hosted
service.
ArtistScope DRM Portal Software
CopySafe PDF Protector for document conversions, the DRM Portal
to provide a control panel and management pages on your web
site, and the DLL interface between the portal and the protector
software can purchased outright and installed onto any Windows
server. With this installation you will be able to provide the
same services that ArtistScope provides for its authors, as it
is the same software. Further information and pricing for the
DRM software can be
found here.
Hosted DRM Service
ArtistScope DRM for PDF can also be rented as a hosted service
provided by ArtistScope enabling authors to upload and use the
server-side version of CopySafe PDF protector to convert and
protect documents. Documents thus uploaded have the option of
being further protected by DRM controls which can be modified at
any time. Further information and pricing for the Hosted DRM
Service can be
found here.
The ArtistScope eBook Store
All authors using CopySafe to protect their eBooks and documents
are eligible to list their those publications for sale in the
ArtistScope eBook Store.
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