Ping when someone opens an Acrobat document

Hi.
I often need to share sensitive documents where I only want the recipient to receive it. It's human nature to forward files though, and people send off my documents to others. Password protection is not good enough as passwords can be forwarded along with the document.
Is it possible to have a feature where when someone opens a file, I get an email with their IP address and the time of opening?
Or is there some other kind of copy protection, but not as cumbersome as asking for being tied to a CPU and all that DRM jazz?
Thanks!

You might check the Acrobat Scripting Forum
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.3bbedaa6
Of course, even if it IS possible to write a script that will automatically invoke the user's email program, I doubt that you will be able to actually make it SEND the message without the user clicking on the send button in the program
Sending an email without the user knowing is going to be seen as a virus (trojan? whatever the correct term) by the OS and any security software the user has, and will be blocked and reported... and could get you in a LOT of trouble with your Internet provider

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