Py2exe... & hiding propritary stuff in the exe

[Will]

Your right Dave.. we just want to make it as difficult as we can for the
average user... I guess a determined programmer could de-compile our code if
they really wanted to. So, there is no perfect solution I guess. But, we
want it harder than just selecting all the files and pressing Ctl-C and
Ctl-V :)

Have fun,

Will

"Dave Brueck" <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.82.1077045334.31398.python-list at python.org...
> Will wrote:
> > For example, if I have a propritary graphic/slide and/or short
propritary
> > video that I don't want to be a 'standalone' file... like a jpg or mov
or
> > whatever... as I don't want people to be able to re-distribute the
proteray
> > graphic/movie files w/o my application... will Py2exe or some other tool
or
> > method bury those some way... like keeping them as data in the exe file?
>
> How will that proprietary media be used? I ask because once you go to view
it,
> won't it be completely open and available to the user anyway? (if it's a
jpg,
> then the user could just take a screen shot of it, and if it's a movie,
then
> you either have to make it available on the filesystem so the video player
can
> play it, or go through the non-trivial tasks of streaming the data to the
> player, in which case the player's own DRM scheme may be better as true
media
> access control requires integration with the media sink or player, and not
just
> the transport).
>
> -Dave
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