Flash-Application to run on CD-Rom only

Question

Hi
I'm looking for a solutions to a seeminlgy simple problem:
I have an standalone Flash application on CD-Rom, and I want
the application to run only if the app runs directly off the CD -
or at least if the CD is inserted in the CD-drive.
Thus if the app gets copied from the CD onto the computer it
shouldn't be playable if the CD ain't here.
Except of getting an (expensive) copy protection on the
CD-Rom, can I solve this within Flash or with any other Flash-Tool?
What kind of options do I have to achieve this?
What are some of the solutions you came up with?
Thanks for any input on this one.

Answer 1

peter_76 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm looking for a solutions to a seeminlgy simple
problem:
> I have an standalone Flash application on CD-Rom, and I
want the application
> to run only if the app runs directly off the CD - or at
least if the CD is
> inserted in the CD-drive.
> Thus if the app gets copied from the CD onto the
computer it shouldn't be
> playable if the CD ain't here.
> Except of getting an (expensive) copy protection on the
CD-Rom, can I solve
> this within Flash or with any other Flash-Tool?
> What kind of options do I have to achieve this?
> What are some of the solutions you came up with?
> Thanks for any input on this one.
Hmm
Tough one. Even with high end protection tools there is never
a problem to rip
content off the CD.
I would perhaps go with shared object. Not perfect solution
but it could work
to some degree.
Shared Object is a native form of Flash's cookies. It can
store data on user drive
in form of *.sol file. It's not editable or possible to open
with any conventional
program, nor it's easy to find as most users don't even know
these files exists.
How would Shared Object apply here?
On first run you get the drive letter by checking the path of
the projector file and
store that in Shared object on user drive. On every other run
you compare the letter
to a new path and if it changes, which is not likely if user
run it off the CDROM, than
you maintain the application playback and if it did change,
you can do some action to
stop it.
Now, it would be very easy to work it around if before
running user would copy it directly
to the drive but is not likely. Someone usually run it first,
than copy so as long as it
run once, you able to make that record using shared object.
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Urami
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