Had an interesting inquiry earlier - a member was going to invest a fair wedge of cash in a software program to password protect and encrypt some material they want to publish in a PDF ebook. This information might be useful to a few others - as one of the issues that every publisher has to deal with is copyright infringement - which is actually theft and can lead to criminal sanctions. However I digress! The ONLY way to stop someone stealing your work is to never, ever, ever publish it - once youve typed and printed it out stick it in a safe and bury it in your garden. Consider filling the hole in with armoured cement and stick a few anti-personnel booby traps around it. Theres a small chance that these simple precautions might work (wouldnt stop me though lol) It is impossible to protect a PDF - Ive demonstrated this by sending back someones PDF content in a word document 10 minutes after the author sent it to me - after theyd spent a couple of hundred quid on a piece of software designed to prevent exactly that from happening. What about the sellers claims on their site? Not impressed! I dont care if its impregnable, encryption strenght as used by the US military (cos we know theyve never been hacked right?), or recommended by some University professor specislist in data security with more nose hairs than any human being should legally be allowed to possess - the simple answer is save your money - a sensible program like pdfarchitect.org/ is what I use and it does me. Im currently aware of 2 different organisations in the UK who are passing off my work as their own. Once more round the mulberry bush we go:-) If anyone has a similar problem and are stressing out about it and daunted by the £230 PH plus VAT charges that are common with copyright solicitors drop me a line and Ill give you a few tips on what to do...
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:47:29 +0000
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