> Note: I make most of my content on SC downloadable anyway because I don't make money from my music, but the principle is still the same - I want the right to

> Note: I make most of my content on SC downloadable anyway because I don't make money from my music, but the principle is still the same - I want the right to control whether my creative output can or cannot be downloaded. So you want X and !X at the same time, enforced by the client? First rule: don't trust the client. Second rule: if you release something online, you lose control of it. As a corollary of rule 2: accept that scarcity doesn't apply online with regards to digitized content. Third rule: DRM doesn't work. Giving encrypted files along with the key to decrypt is pointless. Fourth rule: Obfuscation only buys you time. It buys you even less time against a dedicated attacker. But, it does take time to understand and wrap your head around these rules. And I know not everyone accepts them up front. Many try to think of ways around these things, using 'creative' ways (aka: logical fallacies).