Controlling Attachments and Copying PDF forms

Am I correct in assuming that you cannot control the attachment of a PDF form through the use of Rights Management. I have a client that wished to do this as they do not really want to have to write script in their process to accomodate this. Also is there a way in RM to be able to prevent a PDF from being copied?

Hi Steve,
The use case for this is that the client is worried about intellectual property being sent out to people that are not supposed to have it. I understand that DRM will not allow any unauthorized users from opening the PDF file. What the client wanted to be able to do was have PDF documents that the internal user could not copy to other locations and could not actually attach to an email. They figured that this would be the safest way to deal with loss of IP.
I explained that we could do the prevention of an attachment through scripting in a process, but there is really nothing that we can do in DRM. The bottom line is that if someone wants to steal IP then there is no way to prevent all methods of doing this. The best that we can do is make it as hard as possible. I will also explain again that the security is in the PDF form itself and they do not have to worry about unauthorized access,
This is not something that I think we should spend a lot of time on as the level of security in the form more than meets what the client requires, they just don't understand it yet.
Thanks for your help in this.

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