[thelist] Flash read only?

[Mark Groen]

> to protect your Flash files, use the "Protect from import" checkbox on
> the output settings dialog...  that will prevent people from opening
> it in the Flash editor...
>
> but no, there is no way to prevent people from downloading the
> compiled movie and viewing it all they want...
Protect from import works if they are opening the .swf file in Flash, but there
are some shareware/freeware decompilers out there that will open any .swf
and convert it to a .fla, you can grab images, movie clips and basically
anything else that was in the Librabry when you created the .fla. Quick trip to
Google finds them, too many to list here.