Q - Can media dynamically protect-&-serve SWF on an LMS?

Hi, here's the problem:
I want to protect SWF files that contain graphics, code and audio from rippers.
I want to sell the SWFs online via credit card but not allow unauthorised use or sharing.
I want customers to be able to use the dynamically served SWF on a learning management/content system (web training delivery).
The learning management/content system is hosted externally to the corporate intranet via a firewall.
I want to control the licence - for example: a company buys the licence for max 100 persons per month (i.e. 100 deliveries of a training course).
The above is possible with non-Adobe products but I haven't found one that also dynamically serves SWFs/video.
Is it possible with Adobe products?
I envisage on the LMS web page, there is a SWF link to the server, with a licence code in the web page, so when the page is loaded, it calls for the SWF and provides the licence, the adobe media server checks the licence and counts the uses, with firewall permission, and deliveres the SWF to the intranet web page.

No, I am a slightly aggressive person :-) But I detest physical violence!
You do have an option for attempting to achieve what you desire though, with Adobe Flash Player as target platform. You speak of protecting graphics etc.
Well, embed the graphics as binary array (SWF has tags for that and for accessing this data as ByteArray through the API) in a protected form (e.g. encrypted). Decrypt it on client-side using code, obfuscating both the decryption routine and especially the decryption key. You are splitting the chance of compromised system in two - you have now two attack targets - the SWF file, and the corresponding player runtime. A potential attacker will have to have both (assuming the encryption holds) to extract plain graphics data.
But as you probably see yourself, this is not much different from the DRM-style solutions. With enough dedication, your decryption key will be extracted and published, and the system will be compromised. You may achieve better protection with hardware assistance, but it's all cat and mouse game, really, where you are the mouse.
You may not find anything worth your while elsewhere, of course I reserve this judgement somewhat depending on the user penetration of your product, dedication of the percentage of it's more hacker-oriented minds, the product ROI and various other factors. If I were you, I would do it with Flash Player, since it penetrates some ninety percent of Internet connected user market. While "Adobe Flash technology" may or may not give you DRM as per se, SWF is a very versatile format itself, certainly customizeable enough to give you real ideas on how to do it all yourself.
Mac users don't execute EXE files, by the way. Windows is a thing of the past IMO, today it is all about client diversity.

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