how do websites make it impossible to take a screenshot when their page is open?

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Beyond

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i was trying to take a screenshot of sheet music from a song to show a friend, and while the window was open, i couldn't get fraps or windows to take any screenshots at all. how do websites do this?
 
Fraps wouldn't work anyway, it only works for DirectX and OpenGL. I'm not quite sure how they would do it, but it seems that it's there for a reason, to prevent breach of copyright. What website is it, and does it use a plugin (Scorch perhaps)?
 
magicman said:
Fraps wouldn't work anyway, it only works for DirectX and OpenGL. I'm not quite sure how they would do it, but it seems that it's there for a reason, to prevent breach of copyright. What website is it, and does it use a plugin (Scorch perhaps)?
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not very familiar with fraps, so i didn't know that. now i do :P

it was amazon...
 
Hmmm, they've got some very clever code going on in there. You can liken what they're doing to Google's Book search at the moment, Google are creating a huge library but aren't allowing people to copy what the have stored, otherwise it'd be a breach of copyright. Both amazon and google will be of the mind that if you want it, you buy it. That's perfectly reasonable I guess.
 
I'm pretty positive that if the focus isnt on the page, you will be able to take a screenie, try and lower a page on it, but not in the way? (not condoning)
 
Couldn' you just hit PRINT SCREEN, if not take a digital camera and take a photo :P

btw, what was the site?
 
It is possible to disable the keyboard and such thought a website using java and all. It's crazy how much you can really do, but most sites don't bother going that far.
 
twentyoneth said:
Erm, in mozilla firefox, print screen works fine. On Amazon.com
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I think the question is concerning viewing Amazon's sheet music, not Amazon's home page. Are you saying firefox doesn't have that problem?
 
There are a number of ways of inhibiting right-click and screenprint but many of them have holes (need certain versions of browsers or other software). I just go somewhere else never to return.

You can guarantee that if the practice becomes common, you will be able to get software to defeat it.

I wonder where it's going. Today just the above. Tomorrow, inhibit the keyboard and mouse and hey, while we're at it, send out your personal and password files.

Starman*
 
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