Domain lock was invented for the very first image
protection software in 1998. While encrypted images displayed in a
Java applet could not be copied, the encrypted image cold be
downloaded and displayed elsewhere online, except with "domain lock"
the images are encrypted for the intended web site only.
Domain Lock is the process of encrypting web media so that
it can only be displayed from your domain. Even
to this day, ArtistScope's "domain lock" remains unparalleled
and today ArtistScope employs domain lock in
copy protection software for displaying encrypted images, PDF and video on
web pages.
Web media such as images, PDF and video is encrypted
using the licensee's domain name as the decryption key. When
that media is displayed on a web page the applet or object
displaying it checks the host name of the web site and uses
its domain name as the decryption key. If the domain is not
a match to the decryption key, then the media cannot be
displayed.
Domain Lock is the ideal solution for ensuring that
media downloaded from a website can only be viewable from
the web site that owns it, thus preventing plagiarism and
unauthorized distribution of one's livelihood.
Domain-locking is only as secure as the media
and its viewer. For example, if
the media has been encoded using JavaScript, then it will
be the easiest to decode. Likewise if the media is played in a
Flash viewer there is software available on the web for
decoding it to remove any protection. Flash has become a
popular presentation tool, but it was never designed to be
secure.
ArtistScope encrypted images can only be decrypted by our ActiveX and/or Java applets,
depending on the user's platform. These are 1,000 times more
secure than JavaScript and Flash encoding. In fact there is
no risk at all because decompiling will not yield an
algorithm that can be used even with the computer resources
of NASA.
Encrypted media is most secure while stored on the web
server and are protected
from distribution even from your
employees, webmaster and staff... everyone who has
access to the server.
ArtistScope software that utilizes the most effective domain lock
solutions includes
Secure Image Pro,
which is for general image encryption and is supported across
all platforms, along with
CopySafe Web
which is the most secure copy protection software for images,
CopySafe PDF which
is the most secure copy protection software for PDF and
ebooks, and CopySafe
Video which is the most secure copy protection software
for video.
Secure Image supports all commonly-used browsers on Windows,
Linux and Mac computers. Our other copy protection solutions
are for Windows only because the include the most robust
protection from all copy including screen capture and DRM
that locks media to a user's computer... OS other than
Windows, especially those used on amusement devices like
mobile phones, cannot be properly protected and attempting
to do so would only provide an opportunity for exploit what
are otherwise the most secure copy protection solutions on
the planet.
Note: As of late 2015 all of the
popular web browser dropped support for real browser plugins
(NPAPI) that could interact at system level. Today they only
support JavaScript/HTML based apps that can run on mobile
phones. Consequently the popular web browsers cannot be used
with any effective copy protection solution. But all is not
lost because ArtistScope provide
the ArtisBrowser which unlike the
other browsers, has been specially designed to protect web
media.