Saving an AI file to a PDF

Is there a way to save an AI file and lock it where you can not manipulate the art after it is saved in a PDF format. We are a printing company and when we create our art work and proof it to the customer, we do not want them to have the capabilities to use this art with someone else. We would like to stay with proofing in a PDF format if possible.
Anyone have any suggestions?

ok, thanks for the useless comment, I was just wondering if there was a way to do this. First off, you don't know anything about our business and I would probably bet that we are much larger and have many more million dollar corporate accounts than you do, so obviously we are doing something right. Mostly the people that are willing do this are the small fly by night customers who just want you to set their art and have some local small sign shop print it for them because we have minimum orders in place. These are the people that I want to stop from doing this, Most of our customers are large enough, that they have their own art departments and they set and send their own art, so I'm not concerned with them. I am concerned with the small customers that are trying to use us for setting art and then never pay their bill and never order from you.
I would guarantee you that our customer service, lead times, and quality will equal any print shop in the nation. Some of our customers only let us bid their "hot" jobs and do not send them to anyone else because we can get the jobs out so quickly.
So thank you for your pointless answer.

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