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Off the top of my head I can think of two ways you could attempt to keep her images or data safe from multiple viewings.

The first and most robust would be to engineer a bespoke application to view the data. As the data is being displayed to a screen the application could be in the process of deleting its “stored data”. Some agreement to install and modify the computer being used to display data would be necessary to circumvent the obvious screen grab copy. Unfortunately even systems like this would be open to exploitation but its several steps in the right direction.

The second is to use web based technology. Use a cookie to identify visitors and code a server side script to refuse to display the data more than once to the same visitor. Once again this method will be prone to exploitation but numerous techniques like encrypting data and implementing timeouts for pages would make compromising your info harder.

In an effort to reduce costs and/or improve resilience of the proposed system a combination of the two methods above may prove the best.

For a low budget start I’d wonder that stopping publishing high quality PDF documents might be a wise move. Less scrupulous people could send these to a print shop themselves thus saving on the “artistic” charge.

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Sent: 19 October 2006 11:58
To: Cambridge Computer Support
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Hi

You may already be aware but our other director has recently launched her own website for her artwork. She has asked me to ask you a question. As the majority of business she does is 'virtual' is there any way something, maybe a bug could be put in so that once a piece of art has been looked at the bug destroys that piece of art, so it can't be used again?