Prevent customer from copying presentation material

[MarshaThxYou1]

I will be giving a presentation a a customer this week. They have made a
point several times of saying they do not wish to pay for my training
material, which is fine. They however have made several requests to have a
CD with a copy of the presentation to show during the training. I have
mentioned I would be glad to plug in my laptop to the projector at the proper
time - or have it on a thumb drive and use that to start the presentation -
however they insist that will not work for their needs as they have many
things to do that day.

Other than my internal "fishy" alarm sounding I am trying to give them the
benefit of the doubt. I would like to know if there is a way to copy the
presentation to a CD to give to them but they would only be able to view it
and nothing else. Can someone tell me how?

Thanks!

Marsha

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha ...

Of course your "fishy" alarm should be going off. There are only a few
reasons for insisting on your material on a CD. The worrisome one is to
burn a quick copy for their own use later.

I would strongly suggest that you look at SecurePack. It will bundle the
presentation into an executable file that can have several types of
expiration criteria set (date, # of shows, etc.). It is not free, but
considering the value of the material you are protecting, it isn't expensive
either.
http://skp.mvps.org/securepack/

Now, should they be less than honorable, they can not get at the
presentation file. They can still take screen captures of the slides --
since anything that is displayed on a monitor can be copied -- there is no
way around that. However, if you make the exe file expire the day after the
training, they will probably miss their window to do that.


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[TAJ Simmons]

Marsha

What Bill said - but also...

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

I'd probably go for the PDF or 'screen grab' route.

Definately fishy


Cheers
TAJ Simmons

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[Bill Dilworth]

LMAO, didn't realize anyone still knew that Stan Freberg routine.

 

[MarshaThxYou1]

Thank you. I will give it a try. I appreciate everyone's help and advice.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Marsha,

One other afterthough - you could add a unobtrusive watermark on all your
slides... either a small (c) etc etc on the edge, or a large watermark that
sits below all the content. So even if they grab the content.... it would
make it harder to remove your 'mark'

TAJ