Sup /g/, im going to start selling this usb with information on them (Books, music, movies, etc) but i have to find a way so people can't freely copy the files to other hardware, ruining my bussiness.
Is there a way to do that?
>selling information you got for free
No
>>54080352
Get a rope and hang yourself
>>54080352
yeah you set it to read only
>>54080363
>Got free
Why do you imply that? Just so you know, im buying books, scanning them and selling them to college students who can't afford to buy a $50 book each fucking semester, Im giving everybook they need for the semester at the price a little more than the average 1 gb usb.
Want proof? I have a shit ton of books i've already scanned, i just need this to start promoting this.
>>54080352
No, it's not possible at all.
If you can read it, you can copy it. Sorry to disappoint you, chaim.
>>54080352
Impossible.
Unless you make it unreadable, everyone will be able to copy to another place, but then again, the file will be useless. So what's the point?
>>54080400
That doesn't prevent them from copying you stupid fuck.
>>54080352
Print the files and sell the paper
DRM
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>>54080459
Doesn't work.
>>54080459
whats that?
>>54080471
Direct Rendering Manager.
It's a Linux kernel feature.
>>54080352
Denuvo :^)
>>54080406
Your "business model" is retarded and there's literally nothing you can do to stop the files getting shared. They'll be posting them on Facebook groups before very long and you'll be shit out of luck. That's if you even manage to get that much interest in the first place.
>>54080459
Too much work if you think about it and OP is just a lame thief, he'll have no interest about it since it's out of his league.
>>54080406
Lol, you just wasted all that time and money, because what you're trying to achieve is just simply impossible.
And I'm not sorry at all to disappoint you.
>>54080352
You are the worst. Information should be free and don't come up with the fucking excuse "It's for students that don't have money bla bla bla". Bullshit. If a student doesn't have money to buy a book every college has a library where you can consult or loan every book you may need. Now, Mr. Ibrahim Goldberg, go back to Jewland and hang yourself.
>>54080514
>wasted
Then i just give them the info for free, be a hero and fuck some bitches on the side. Everything has a bright side.
>>54080521
wi r anonimus wii r fry expectr usa
You could make a viewer program for a file where the data is hard coded in to the source code.
For the viewer to show the pages the reader needs to put password which is checked against some server and it's changed every x days.
The program would empty clipboard constantly so they can't copy and paste.
Write a program to open your files that have been converted into your own custom format then find a way to tie that program to the hardware of the owner of the flashdrive with some crazy DRM that you should sell cause it would sell better than some shitty ebooks that no one would even want to steal.
>>54080541
Well if you made the viewer render it as an image that can't be copied too or from, and then changed the password bullshit to a server based model you would be good. However, if it was me I would just script a screenshotting program that screenshots once every time I clicked so when I advanced the page it screenshotted it. Drop it into a cropper, remake it into a PDF and basically say fuck your system.
>>54080541
This doesn't stop them from copying.
Someone could easily impersonate the program or just simply intercept the packets when entering the password and get the data.
Also, you didn't say that the embedded file was encrypted and that the password was the key, in which case, copying it is as easy as simply extracting it from the binary.
>>54080565
I meant server/account based.
Either way too much work for very little return. People will just end up sharing accounts, because they aren't insane.
>>54080561
This doesn't work either, someone determined will break it and reverse engineer the format.
OP, just fucking give up, it's not possible.
>>54080597
You underestimate how lazy college kids are though. Most would rather drop $50 than spend 10 hours working on reverse engineering something.
Also OP, $50 is crazy cheap. Text books are $150-300 here.
>>54080352
Conceptually, it's possible.
Have on it an installer that can't be copied, it must be run, or at least if it is copied, it can only be run from your disk.
Have it only openable on the PC it was installed on it by querying every time it's opened.
That's about a simple way to do it, like everything, there will be a way to bypass it, but now you can freely sell safely
>>54080612
You underestimate the determination of crackers.
It doesn't have to be a college student who does it, if your little business popular enough, I can guarantee you that someone will crack it and distribute the files, for free.
>>54080630
Nope, it's not even possible conceptually.
What you just explained is laughably easy to crack. An idiot could do it.
>>54080406
>Im giving every book they need for the semester at the price a little more than the average 1 gb usb.
Shitty risk/reward ratio detected. If anybody rats you out the publishers will fuck your shit up.
Won't work
Do a hostage system where after you get x shekels you release the files
It doesn't matter what you do OP, eventually those files will have to be rendered to the screen, then it's just a matter of screenshotting the pages.
Give up and kill yourself.
>>54080653
So what? I dont want to be rich with this, i just want some extra money to help me on my own student life. I dont expect anything else.
why would anyone do that when there is library genesis
>>54080677
OP, I take it that you don't know programming, which means you have no chance at this at all, you are going to have to put the files plainly on a normal filesystem on a USB, so that copying is as easy and ctrl-c ctrl-v.
If you do know programming, do you really want to put so much time into making it only a BIT more harder than before just for a little money?
>>54080352
oh god americans are retarded
OP sucks at jewing. I'd just resell textbooks but I doubt dumbass OP will figure out how to profit from it.
>>54080653
>a normie will spend hours cracking that in order to distribute it for free
No he won't, you're watching too many anonymous documentaries. You're mostly dealing with normies so they don't know shit about computers.
His business won't get big because he's probably dealing on college facebook groups and people couldn't care less about a guy selling books.
Even if he sells them unlocked, you're underestimating human greed. Why would a normie distribute it for free if he had to pay for it ? No, let the other pay for it as well, he's not anyone's slave. Even so you could probably make some quick money if you get lucky.
>>54080677
you do realise that what you're doing is illegal right? you wont be a student for very long if one of your lecturers/profs finds out.
your business model can be emulated by ANYONE who has the textbooks, or any study group that can pool their resources to get them (ie from the library FOR FREE)
Years ago, I was taking a trig class. I got the nook stick, took the DRM off of it and uploaded it to library pirate. When I went to my first day of class, some asshole had a flyer on the door for digital copies (my copies) of the book for $25. We were let in before the teacher got there. I taught the entire class to torrent my copy instead of buying it from that dick. I bought the book because I needed it anyway, I shared with everyone else. Information should be free, fuck your business model.
>>54080751
>information should be free
>I'm such a better person than that guy who sold them
Tell that to the people that worked to write the books.
>>54080774
It's kind of hard to talk to the Pythagorean cult anon
>>54080698
Im beginning to think no. Its not worthy. I better delete the files and let the other students pay full for their own shit
>>54080774
The people who wrote the books already got paid by the publisher.
>tell that to the publisher
Publishers are scum who rob authors of their profits and restrict access to information for no other reason than 'muh money'
>>54080539
No, it's not some internet slogan you faggot. As I said before there are libraries where poeple who couldn't afford books can just borrow them. You just want to shill some sheckles. Now go away /g/ is not the place for you.
Require them to use your proprietary software to read the files
Unless it's the CS department you're trying to scam, they won't be able to break the DRM
>>54080812
Yeah but if the publisher dont get paid, he stops paying the authors for more books.
And then what?
>>54080774
You mean the the people who price their books skyhigh despite putting no more work in than a normal novel author as can be seen by the way they do yearly editions, all while doing everything they can to enforce monopolies on places of study so that in order to learn you need to be rich?
You mean those fucking cunts?
Cry me a river.
>>54080837
Then an author who isn't in it purely for the money writes their own, just as good or better, and asks people to donate $5 if they liked it and can afford to.
>>54080837
then the publisher goes out of business and the author finds a new one.
>>54080837
>Implying we'll run out of greedy scum
>>54080352
Think outside the box nigga.
Do what most of the Indian shitstains do and compress the files into .rars, slap a password on them, and upload the 5byte textfile to those shitty uploading sites which needs surveys answered to access the content.
If you're a humongous jew faggot hide it behind adfly.
>>54080352
You could use a lot of encryption and require an internet connection, so that every 10 seconds the programm give a "ping" (encrypted with metadata) to a server and requires a "pong" to continue working.
Then again this would make the problem interesting enough for some cracker to brake it.
My advice is either give it for free or for a cheap amount of money so people don't even care about cracking/copying it.
>>54080541
>>54080595
>>54080911
The problem with all the 'call home' methods is that they would make OP easier to trace when the publisher wants to extract shekels for copyright infringement. Of course, if the program's 'home' is a server in a foreign nation that doesn't give a fuck about international copyright laws, this becomes less of an issue.
>>54080424
>>54080428
>>54080440
>>54080566
>>54080597
>>54080653
While it's impossible to make some crazy DRM scheme that's foolproof, there are enough cheap/desperate/tech-illiterate college students for OP to make SOME money of this scheme. If anything, OP will have to shut down the operation to avoid the publishers, after some numbnuts posts about the 'l33t s3cr3t h4ck3r' book club all over Facebook, well before someone could hack his system open.
>>54080406
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA
this nigger thinks he owns megaupload or some shit
>>54080352
Learn how to Google retard. I literally found the answer to your pathetic problem is 5 seconds. Not going to share it to some loser who is too stupid to look up some low hanging fruit, faggot.
Add gigabytes worth of unnecessary bloat into the pdf files so they can't share them online as easily
>>54081094
hey surrealdeal slut x
>>54081216
Nice try, but their is no solution.
>>54080521
>Information should be free
The information is all free. But if you want it written down and explained nicely, you'll have to pay someone to do that.
>>54081278
>I'm too stupid to find a solution so there is no solution
>>54080406
Fucking jew you don't give two fucks about them but your own personal gain. Selling information that's not yours is bullshit and fuck off you cunt.
>>54081293
>I will pretend there is a solution so I can call that guy stupid
>>54081306
God you're dumb.
>>54081321
>your
>>54081321
Shit, you won.
>>54080352
Code the official "Anon's Shekel Solutions" media reader app that reads encrypted files from USB if you have a password.
Bonus Jew points if you make it pay per view.
>>54081293
>>54081321
There's no solution to OP's problem, it's theoretically impossible.
Get fucked.
>>54081332
Easily crackable.
>>54081337
There's plenty of solutions what are you talking about.
>>54080352
your lucky the law does not allow me to slit your jew throat wide open. I hope you die in a house fire.
>>54081348
Reported for being an edgy 13 year old.
>>54080406
I seriously hope the books you scanned have copyright expired. Otherwise you better lube your anus.
>>54081356
>announcing reporting
Good job you broke the rule anon.
>>54081337
>Easily crackable.
Yes, but we're talking about people willing to pay for media files on a flash drive from some shady neckbeard that doesn't know how files work.
>>54080352
what you're looking for is called the observer effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_%28physics%29
>>54081368
I didn't actually report :^)
>rused
What stops people from, like, making screenshots? Are you sure you have 46 chromosomes, op?
>>54081376
You got me hard with this post.
>>54081380
>screamshotting 30 books of 1000 pages each
Seem like a solid plan
>>54080406
Or you could do what us gentile students do in some countries - 10 or so of us chip in, buy a book, scan it and share it online with everyone for free.
>>54081390
Well, op has wasted even more time. At least screenshoting is easily automated.
>>54081390
WOW SO HARD WHAT WILL I DO
>>54081301
>owning information
>>54081408
>some sequences of 1s and 0s are illegal to copy
How does this make you feel?
>>54080658
source?
image
>>54080911
Without further protection, that would take me about 10 minutes to break.
Even if you used a packer and obfuscated your code, maybe even wrote some kind of kernel based hackshield, some cracker with too much time and curiousity is going to crack it for lulz and profit.
Unless you're talking humanities or liberal arts textbooks.
In that case it might work.
>>54081416
owned
>>54081326
this bait though
>>54081416
>some sequnces of atoms are illegal to steal
How does it make you feel?
>>54081345
hmm, lets see.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lte_e5lIQ20
Not even a proper solution, extremely easy to bypass, only works on windows.
>http://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-cut-paste-copy-delete-re-naming-of-files-folders
See above
>https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Information-Rights-Management-in-the-2007-Microsoft-Office-system-afd5c5a9-e6fb-4ce7-b24c-eadcc9ee3fe8?CorrelationId=f62df230-e83f-48fd-bec3-9c18251060c2&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#BM1
Only works on office files, and taken straight from the same page:IRM can't prevent the following:
Content from being erased, stolen, or captured and transmitted by malicious programs such as Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, and certain types of spyware
Content from being lost or corrupted because of the actions of computer viruses
Restricted content from being hand-copied or retyped from a display on a recipient's screen
A recipient from taking a digital photograph of the restricted content displayed on a screen
Restricted content from being copied by using third-party screen-capture programs
>http://juan2geek.com/prevent-other-people-from-copying-your-files/
Is not an actual solution, only handles PC -> USB, not the other way around.
Also, only works on Windows.
>https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28260154-Prevent-a-file-from-being-copied-off-the-computer
Read the thread.
Those are just the first few results, but you get my point.
None of these are actual solutions, because it's not actually possible to solve. In fact it's not even a problem.
Get fucked.
>>54081437
(you)
How does this make you feel?
>>54080406
top kike
>>54081390
FreeMacroPlayer or any same soft
>>54081437
What does that have to do with copying?
>>54081439
None of those links have the solution I have and mine works. You're just a pleb, I feel so sorry for you that you are the way that you are anon.
>>54081457
>Some sequences of electrons are illegal
How does this make you feel?
>>54081458
Mind posting the solution so I can disprove it's effectiveness?
>>54081437
NO! NOT AGAIN!
Stop with this shit.
>>54081457
Ah, yeah, arbitrary redefining of terms. You can't steal information, I forgot :^)
>>54081464
I would but I don't want to help gay OP.
>>54081458
If you have a solution, I'm sure the content industry would pay you a lot of money for it.
People copying and distributing data is (in their eyes) still a huge problem for them.
>>54081478
How are you dealing with >>54081380
>>54081478
>I don't actually have a solution.
Okay.
Could of admitted that from the start.
>>54081476
What terms were redefined arbitrarily?
>>54081480
You just have to make it good enough so Brad and Stacy can't crack it. You don't need to make it so good that some tech literate guy can crack it because he probably already knows how to get the content from elsewhere on the internet.
>>54081486
Detect a screen grab and temporarily blank the screen. Easy.
>>54081231
This is the best answer I've seen so far. Wannabe hackers will find debloating the PDFs well below their skill level and won't care, everyone else won't know how to do it.
Still not foolproof, but less effort for the same low-profit outcome.
>>54081509
What if I use a camera.
For all the people saying that copying information does not hurt anybody: how do you feel abour espionage?
>>54080352
Host it on a password protected website and charge a small fee every month or so. If the same password is used from different devices, ban the user. Instead of plain text, upload the information in videos or in flash player. Maybe the normies will have difficulties downloading those. You can maybe use pictures and disable the right click in the website or use them as background images of a div and place a transparent pictures on top of them.
You'll probably get in trouble though. Let's say someone is dissatisfied with your service and gets the staff involved or maybe some teacher is curious of what kind of web library they are using.
>>54080352
>find a way to stop others from copying books
>people start printscreening the pages on the screen
>>54081516
You'll contract eye cancer. You wouldn't want to contract eye cancer.
>>54081509
VM.
>>54081509
lol
So you would either be writing your own document viewer or make them install some shitware DRM virus to do those kind of checks.
>>54081497
See, you don't actually have any solutions.
>>54081509
Open it in VM. Make screenshot from host computer.
>>54081517
It's still possible to have unauthorized use of a computer in order to obtain information, which is rightfully illegal.
>>54081520
Do you realize how big a book is ? No student is gonna want to printscreen 100+ pages and than share them one by one to other students.
At least that depends on the price
>>54081517
I liked your mom's nudes.
>>54081497
I will crack it so Stacy will suck my dick and Brad will throw a party in my name.
t. Chad
>>54081543
It can be easily automated with a simple script.
>>54081535
>>54081526
Can't automate anymore as key press in host is not registered in guest.
>>54081537
It's about making an illegal copy.
>>54081543
>write a 4 line AHK script that rapidly alternates between printscreen and pagedown
>let it run for 2 minutes
>>54081543
Scanning 1k pages is feasible yet scrrenshoting them somehow isn't? Are you alright dude?
>>54081557
You can automate that with a script/macro on the host.
>>54080352
I hope you get caught and chad beats the living shit out of you fatty.
>>54081557
run script in guest to change pages.
run script in VM to take screenshot.
They don't even need to sync up with each other, just make make sure the guest script leaves enough time for the host to screenshot.
Easy.
>>54081559
I would say that any non-living medium that has information on it that has been obtained through the unauthorized use of another medium should be forfeit and the perpetrator should face penalties for the unauthorized access.
>>54081557
What key press?
How about time-based actions?
In VM you flip pages every x milliseconds, on host you print screen every x milliseconds.
Or how about if VM sends a signal to the host every time the next page is displayed, so the host can print the screen.
>>54081543
Did u know what computer can be automated?
There's literally a winapi function to get bitmap of a window of another process, it doesn't even have to be on screen. Unless you're writing directly to video memory, which is forbidden anyway, you're fucked.
>>54081609
Yea of course. Did you know your mom is automated?
Release each book as a set of files, one for each page, all of them password protected with different passwords. Make a patreon account where you release the passwords to subscribers one at a time on a daily basis, keeping tabs on each of them and banning snitches from participating further in your business.
>>54081641
Oh, of course, all pages should be watermarked with the specific subscriber's name.
>>54081653
easily removable.
>>54081641
extremely inconvenient, at that point, they'd rather just buy the book.
>>54081637
Fucking wincucks.
>>54081653
They'll just share without you knowing. Or once he finished publishing a book.
And his actions are obviously not legal, so he can't do anything against them. On the contrary, they can threaten him.
>>54081667
X can do this too retard.
>>54081667
You'd be surprised. There are also functions to allocate memory in another process's space, launch threads in another processes and many others that fucking horrify me. That's why I don't use AVs - it's impossible to make Windows secure.
>>54081664
It shouldn't be a name watermark, it should be something extremely inconspicuous, printer tracking dot tier camouflaged.
>>54081678
>They'll just share without you knowing.
That's why you keep tabs on those people, get to spy on their habits and their friends
>Or once he finished publishing a book.
By that point he's already made all the money there was to make
Sony DRM rootkit scandal.txt
>>54081698
fucking monsters this is disgusting sub human jew trash
>>54081698
I don't think you even understand what he wants to do.
Noone is going to pay you for one page a day of a book you need to study. They want the whole thing at once.
And the goal is not to sell it to one group of people once, but to a lot of people over a great period of time.
Your "solution" is not viable at all.
>>54081720
All of this isn't even my idea btw
Look up the furfag webcomic Hetty
>>54080352
The solution is to get a job, faggot.
>>54081640
> mom is automated
my mom is automated my dad and u burn
>>54081736
>>Noone is going to pay you for one page a day of a book you need to study. They want the whole thing at once.
Well they can't read all of it at once...
>And the goal is not to sell it to one group of people once, but to a lot of people over a great period of time.
Telemetry. Record how fast these people go through the pages and release new ones as appropriate.
There is literally nothing you could to to make this not a retarded idea. Just sell a service that remotely hosts the files and displays it. The file is never on their system, just the data is emulated.
Best I can come up with.
>>54081804
And you still can't get any more money out of it once you published all pages.
>>54081793
Neat.
>>54081829
By that time the exam period is almost over, and nobody needs the book anymore so you wouldn't even sell it otherwise
If something can be read, it can be copied.
/thread
>>54081845
You're not very bright, are you?
>>54081855
I'm pretty sure we're talking about different things at this point
>>54081864
Read the OP.
>im going to start selling this usb with information on them (Books, music, movies, etc)
He's not saying that he wants to sell text books to his fellow students. He's not saying that he wants to do it just once.
A single Patreon "session" would last approximately a single semester. I presume that at whatever faggot university OP's in they probably use updated textbooks for their classes each year.
>>54081895
is for >>54081883
>>54081825
shitty solution, if it's being displayed, it's on their system.
Nothing stopping the user from just copying it.
>>54081895
This is not school faggot. And not even in school are there new textbooks each year.
>>54081923
>Just so you know, im buying books, scanning them and selling them to college students
>>54081557
Fuck me I've never done anything academic or professional with computers, I am literally a hobbyist, and even I could write the script to do that
U dum, nigga
>>54080471
digital reich management
>>54081934
It just occurred to me that if he's paying US$100 for a book, and selling it at US$5 (about the price the market will bear), on a cheap USB stick which costs US$2 he has to sell like 33 copies just to break even, if he considers his time worthless. Added to that, there's literally no way to protect the data so he'll sell at most a handful before someone cracks it, and then he's fucked.
Great plan!
>>54081999
Also, the money will trickle in, with one or two sales per week, so even if it was a viable idea it'd take fucking forever to even turn a tiny profit of a few dollars
like literally just get a fucking job in a supermarket, and you'd make significantly more profit in a single shift than you would in a full year of this terrible scheme
>>54081421
Think it's the documentary "Empire of dust"
>>54080352
Surprised that no one suggested a firmware mod, anyways, firmware modding is the way to go
>>54082047
:^)
>>54080677
reportedto the publishers you gona get raped in prison now
>>54080774
thinking the authour gets shit from jew publishers
>>54080352
I think there is no way to implement this. You can restrict writing process, but If you are able to read USB memory everybody will be able to read and copy the content. It seems like technically it's impossible. Sorry, bruh, I think you should find another way how to earn shekels.
>>54080352
you must harness the power of the dongle
>>54080352
This is non-trivial but possible. You'd need to:
1. Create a custom PDF reader with DRM (every flashdrive you distribute has a unique key)
2. No "Print" option in the reader
3. Bind the "print screen" key (Win32) to nothing, for good measure
>>54083036
There are multiple workarounds against this already in this thread.
For example, taking a photo of the screen, or running the custom software in a VM and making a screenshot on the host.
>>54083102
That's on the level of video taping a movie in a theater. Sure, you can do it, but it sucks.
>>54080352
You can encrypt it I guess, but they get cracked all the time.
>>54080352
OP, why don't you just add an EULA. Basically it'll state that the files you copied onto the USB are illegal for them to copy. This way you can sue them if they copy your pirated files.
Stop being a fucking kike and get a legitimate trade like drug dealing or being a pimp. Or just kill yourself, which would make the planet a better place to live.
>>54083133
Except it isn't, it would be pretty much the same as the shitty scans of OP, unless he took the time to clean them and OCR the thing, which is obvious he didn't
>>54080352
You can do this by creating a small hardware component yourself that connects via USB.
This hardware must have its own program that installs on the PC and it's only able to read and reproduce the contents via this program only using encryption.
However it's still possible to record any audio, video, image, text and even coding from this device if it connects to a PC and it's able to show anything on the screen or speakers. So the only way is to not make it compatible to any PC and instead just make a small computer that connects to the TV or monitor instead, same as a commercial DVD player but without the DVD part.
However a DVD recorded connected to the TV can also record anything this device is displaying. SO the only way is to also include a small monitor and embedded speakers with absolutely no type of connectivity to any other device.
