Controlling Quicktime Audio

Hello,
I've added a page to my iWeb developed site hosted on .mac that contains 4 mp3 audio files. Currently they appear as an image (optional) with the quicktime slider control beneath.
I have a two part question regarding controlling the behavior of quicktime.
Presently, each time the page is loaded, all the audio files are downloaded irrespective of the listners desire to play any of them. This takes a considerable time, and the browser is pretty much at a standstill untill all the files have been downloaded. Can I prevent QT from doing that untill the vierer selects a file to play?
Second, if the user has quicktime pro, he can download and save the source file. I would like to prevent anyone from doing this, QT pro or not. Is there any way I can prevent the user from saving the file locally?
Thanks,
Gary

Yep. Four downloads happening at the same time is a waste of bandwidth. What you need is known as a "Poster" movie. An example from one of my pages:
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/MTV/
Notice that the actual file doesn't download until a viewer click the poster movie? The poster movie could be a simple "click me to play" image file saved as a QuickTime .mov file. The html code uses special tags that link the poster movie to the actual file and my example also "calls" the QuickTime Player instead of using the browser plug-in.
If you own QuickTime Pro try using the "Save" or "Save As" on the downloaded file. Can't be done because the file is "protected" with a special AppleScript that disabled saving or editing.
Viewers could still "record" the file using screen capture software however. The same would be true of your audio only QuickTime files. But most users are not that savvy and these "locks" would frustrate most visitors.

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