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History The most secure solutions for digital images, documents and web pages.
The founder of copy protection for the Internet

ArtistScope is an artist-oriented company founded in 1997 specifically to address the need for solutions that could be employed by artists and photographers to protect their livelihood online. At a time when nothing was available at all for the protection for artworks beyond download, ArtistScope sought a solution despite everyone including the technologists saying that it was impossible.

The very first solution stumbled upon in our research was quite simple but very effective. By overlaying a clear image over the top of the image it was protected from click and save as. It had shortcomings because it was at a time when overlays were supported by 70% of web browsers but anyone with an older browser saw exploded pages. Shortly afterwards Internet Explorer was upgraded to enable users to download images and pages with a single click.

The next solution provide provided link protection to prevent unauthorised linking and bandwidth theft.

Then we discovered that a Java applet could display an image that couldn't be mouse saved or copied using the page save as command. But the image was still exposed to direct linking and retrieval from the browser cache, so ArtistScope developed image encryption using an algorithm of the domain name as the password (domain lock).

This was back in 1998 when very few knew about Printscreen (less than 10% of web developers). But image protection was new and so became the sport of spreading the word online forums about how to steal images. Printscreen was the topic shortly followed by a flood of screen capture programs based on technology that Microsoft was publishing for free.

Then ArtistScope developed a plugin to prevent Printscreen and screen capture at system level.

Digital Rights Management

DRM is one of the few terms used in the copy protection industry that was not invented by ArtistScope. DRM came from the wordsmiths employed by the multi-million dollar start ups who emerged following ArtistScope developments. Funded by stock market investors, their fate was short lived because despite all the hype that they created, "copy protection" is not a billion dollar industry at all. There were very few who could afford the inflexibility and inherent limitations of their solutions which were extremely expensive and required dedicated servers. But perhaps their greatest failing was the inability to maintain that each client and end user was kept abreast of the constant changes in Internet environment. Without updates you eventually have a lack of security and a lot of unhappy clients.

ArtistScope has more than 10 years of experience in the industry of copy protection (longer than the industry's lifetime) and our solutions are not just imitations. Our solutions are most portable, variable, affordable and easy to use. ArtistScope DRM offers total control of documents even after distribution... and is more secure than ever imagined.

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ArtistScope CD
ArtistScope DRM
Artis Translate
CopySafe PDF
Copysafe Web
Link Protect
Scroll Image
Secure Image Pro
Zoom Image

ArtistScope Innovations:

Image encryption for the web
Web leech prevention
Web capture prevention
CD protection
PDF protection
Multi-language on the fly
Total control DRM management

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