[thelist] Flash Protection

[Jason Lotito]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin" <p+evolt at redbrick.dcu.ie>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash Protection


> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:52:07AM -0400, Jason Lotito wrote:
> > It not clients I am worried about.  We have actual games online
> > (www.infinitecasino.com) that we have actually seen people place on
their
> > site.  The benefit is that the flash client itself is as dumb as
possible,
> > with all the actual game logic being handled by PHP, so the 'stealer'
would
> > still need to create the game logic server side, though that isn't
> > difficult.
>
> > Do you know where I can find these decompilers?  Almost sounds illegal,
heh.
>
> > In our industry, a copyright notice inside the script isn't going to do
> > much, unfortunately, as too many players are rather scrupulous.
>
> Why are they doing this BTW.

To steal the Flash games and use them on their own sites.  We do all the
work, and get paid nothing for the software.

> e.g. what exactly are you trying to protect, the visuals of the game?

The actual flash code as well as the action script.

>
> Is it possible they've just manually copied the swf?

No.  We have proof that they have in fact stolen the actual source (it has
been modified.

>
> Anyways, since the .swf spec if published there's not really any way of
> protecting people from stealin gyour graphics & code, although why you'd
want
> to be so protective of it i'm not sure.

Because what we offer is rather unique in our industry, and at this time, we
are really the only one's doing it the way we are doing it.

>
> I've heard about this before Flasm:
> http://flasm.sourceforge.net
> that actually make sflash movies through an assembly-like language,,
> thant can stop your code from being viewed in 'actionscript viewer'
>

Thanks, I will have to look at it.

> If you explain what exactly you're trying to prevent then we'll be able ot
> help. (:

Prevent people from decompiling our flash files and having access to make
changes or also preventing access to the Action Script.

Jason