Powerpoint Protection

[Roseanna Paulin]

I made a powerpoint presentation with photos/video of our school musical to
sell for the drama department. When we were selling them, I heard a man in
line tell a few people, "just buy one copy and I'll burn extras for you."
Is there a way to put a password on my presentation so people cannot do
this?

Thank you for your time.....

Roseanna

 

[Luc]

Roseanna,
Password protect a presentation:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00038.htm
Also have a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/technologies/irm.mspx
Luc

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I made a powerpoint presentation with photos/video of our school musical to
sell for the drama department. When we were selling them, I heard a man in
line tell a few people, "just buy one copy and I'll burn extras for you."
Is there a way to put a password on my presentation so people cannot do
this?

There are a few outlined here:

Password protect a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00038.htm

But I doubt any of them would help in your situation; you'd have to give the
user a password along with the CD and if they're dishonest enough to copy the
CD, they'll share the password too.

Now if you used their VISA info as the password, they might be more reluctant
to do that ... but you'd have to create a copy for each user. Not worth it.

The best thing might be to turn to the gentleman who made the offer, smile
sweetly, and ask "You could do that, but why would you want to cheat us like
that?"

Or "Yes, but then we'd have to send our lawyers to eat your children."

Depending on your mood <g>

Seriously, there's probably not a lot you can do other than to put a copyright
notice on the label of the CD and other packaging and a reminder that copying
is AGAINST THE LAW.