My Flash has been Stolen: Question:

[SardonicSamurai]

First Off

Second, is there any form of action script I can put into my Flash making it hard for anyone to steal it?

[Fion]

Well you should have put credits in your flash so that if it was stolen it was still credited to you. That way it really wouldn't make much of a difference because the more people see it the better right? Thats what I would see as the point to making a flash.

Anyway, if you don't want it on that site the best you could do is email administration of the site and ask that they take it down.

In the future if you wish to have your flash only work on a single site like newgrounds for example you could simply use the following code on the first frame of your animation:

this_url = _root._url;
if (this_url.indexOf("uploads.ungrounded")!
=-1) {
gotoAndStop(2);
}else{
gotoAndPlay(3);

Then have your animation start on frame three and have frame two have a short little message to say that the animation was stolen and to view the actual animation go to newgrounds.com

Also make sure to hide the rightclick menu using the following code:

var newMenu=new ContextMenu();
newMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
_root.menu=newMenu;

[Afro-Ninja]

At 2/7/08 01:52 AM, Fion wrote: var newMenu=new ContextMenu();
newMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
_root.menu=newMenu;

or just
Stage.showMenu=false;

you don't need to do that stuff unless you're customizing the menu
or unless Stage.showMenu is deprecated with AS3 now or something

[SardonicSamurai]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Ya... no idea why I didn't say anything at the end of my flash... I was at college when I finally finished it, so I just wanted to post it then go home.

*sigh*

Thank you though :)

[SardonicSamurai]

And fion

The code doesn't work :(

I am not good at any programming, it anyone hasn't noticed yet :(

[Afro-Ninja]

At 2/7/08 02:08 AM, SardonicSamurai wrote: The code doesn't work :(

are you testing the file locally on your computer? or uploading it somewhere?

[Fion]

At 2/7/08 01:55 AM, Afro-Ninja wrote: or just
Stage.showMenu=false;

you don't need to do that stuff unless you're customizing the menu
or unless Stage.showMenu is deprecated with AS3 now or something

Oh yeah I completely forgot about that. That would work just aswell. Also I don't know the go with AS3 but if you wish to put it in your flash SardonicSamurai you could just change your actionscript to AS2 as I'm guessing you aren't making any games.

At 2/7/08 02:08 AM, SardonicSamurai wrote: And fion

The code doesn't work :(

In what way doesn't it work?

[SkySausage]

Your flash is stolen? You should contact the admin guys and ask for it to be removed from the site.

[Rustygames]

If you don't want it on their site, email them and they'll get rid of it

[GuyWithHisComp]

At 2/7/08 01:52 AM, Fion wrote: this_url = _root._url;
if (this_url.indexOf("uploads.ungrounded")!
=-1) {
gotoAndStop(2);
}else{
gotoAndPlay(3);

Lol, that would make it work on every site except Newgrounds. :P
Also, you forgot the ending bracket;

this_url = _root._url;
if (this_url.indexOf("uploads.ungrounded")==-1) {
	gotoAndStop(2);
}
else{
	gotoAndPlay(3);
}

[Paranoia]

At 2/7/08 01:52 AM, Fion wrote: Well you should have put credits in your flash so that if it was stolen it was still credited to you. That way it really wouldn't make much of a difference because the more people see it the better right? Thats what I would see as the point to making a flash.

You can't really blame a newcomer to the Flash scene for assuming that their submission page on NG would be ample credit. Common-sense dictates that the burden of correct crediting and notification of use should be on the site hosting the game, not on its creator. Anyway, the only reason that games on more sites means more views is because those sites gain traffic through hosting stolen content - if they didn't have the stuff, there'd be no traffic for them => more traffic to legitimate Flash sites.

Minor rant aside, for future reference don't expect other people's sense of morality to achieve the same effect as spamming your name all over something.