- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:36:59 +1000
Malcolm Rowe wrote: > Hmm. Would this make it easy for authors to prevent pages from being > printed? I wouldn't want that. Your fear is a reality! There are some twits that go to great length to do exactly this, and more, though in more complicated ways than using a style sheet as already demonstrated. This *twit* [1] has gone to extroadinary lengths to produce a commercial product that not only attempts to prevent printing (see the 9th issue), but also creates nearly a dozen more serious accessiblity problems, desinged purely to prevent a user stealing content to protect the authors copyright. [1] http://www.lachy.id.au/blogs/nettwits/2004/07/false-sense-of-security -- Lachlan Hunt http://www.lachy.id.au/ lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
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