Hi,
I have recently created a flash movie, exported it, gave it a password.
However a friend has been able to alter the movie, he sed he used a program which removes the password and saves the ‘new’ unprotected version, which he can then import into flash and edit
granted he will not be able to upload it to my website but he could pass off the work as him own
Is there a way of getting around this?
Cheers
P.S
If you know flash pretty well and you think this isnt possible please let me know! tah!
any comments would be gr8 guy!?!!!
Yeah it can be done easily enough.
You can use the load movie to load .swf’s into a container. This will reduce the risk but not eliminate it altogether. There are a few other tricks you can do but you have to ask yourself if it’s worth all the hassle. You’ll never be 100% secure.
To my knowledge, there is no way to be sure that your swf can’t be decompiled.
I personally think that this issue is <u>way</u> over emphasized. If a person “steals” your work, even gets a gig because of it, then that person won’t be able to reproduce it, or explain it. If you ever need to prove the work is yours, you have the original .fla (it will look drastically different than a decompiled one), however I have been in the web business for quite a while, and have never had reason to protect from import.
Maybe I’m living in a dream world, but that is my opinion.
Rev
ok cheers, ppl
it just gets on my nerves wen ive at down n learned how 2 use use flash (as basic as I know) wen ppl who dont bother rip off my work
Just out of interest thought, nemore info on a ‘container’?
thanx again
another way to hide your swf’s, is to rename them to a diff extension (.txt for example), the browser will still play them as a flash movie, but the user will have a hard time finding it in their temp files…
Rev
I was unaware of that 
Thanx Rev 
*Originally posted by reverendflash *
**another way to hide your swf’s, is to rename them to a diff extension (.txt for example), the browser will still play them as a flash movie, but the user will have a hard time finding it in their temp files…
Rev **
Put the swf in a frames format with the index page calling a second page on redirect that uses a variable equation that only you know.
Like this:
javascript
define the loc var
and then in the body:
<EMBED src=“index.swf’+loc+’”>
Sothinks can not read the +var+ and will simply export a 0 K file…
it works…
Even if you create a page like that… Doesn’t mean someone won’t copy it using a different code and just looking off of it…
When I made the Destructable Terrain out of the drwing API… Bit-101 wanted to create a similar effect so he used my initial idea “drawing api” and then spit on out… Well… Sometimes it turns out for the good… I got my code more optimized by him and I believe pom made a snow build up flash thing out of bit-101’s…
It pisses you off when you first see it… But after a while… You have to be porud that someone actually thought your thing was cool enough to copy…
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