About ArtisBrowser
ArtisBrowser is the only web browser specially designed for and dedicated to the protection of web media. When used in conjunction with the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) a secure tunnel is created between a website and the site visitor in which nothing can be copied or extracted, not even from browser cache or memory.
Why use ArtisBrowser?
Copy protection needs to be actioned at
system level and since 2015 all popular web browsers dropped support
for ActiveX and NPAPI browser plugins making them totally useless
for copy protected websites. While that may seem to be an
inconvenience, it is actually a blessing because site owners can no
longer make compromises that undermine their web security. Popular
web browsers have always been purposely designed to collect and
exploit web media. They have also been inconsistent and provided
unstable platforms for mission critical projects.
ArtisBrowser was first released in 2011 and was already proven in
the field before the other browser makers decided to support simple
plugins (add-ons) suitable for mobile devices. The early versions of
ArtisBrowser were limited for use on ASPS websites only, but since
support was dropped for the browser plugins used by the CopySafe
copy protection solutions, ArtisBrowser has been extended to cater
for all web content and function like any normal web browser, that
is, until it switches to "protection mode".
Some features not provided by other web browsers:
- All media is protected from all copy techniques.
- Data can't be extracted from cache or memory.
- Unique user identification for access rights (DRM).
- Inbuilt support for 25+ languages.
- Supported on all Mac and Windows OS (inc. XP).
- Supports HTML5 on all OS inc. Windows XP*
* Windows XP is dated before the advent of HTML5 so it never supported HTML5 video. Usage stats show that 3-5 % of users are still using XP and why that is so can be due to privacy concerns and that the cost of upgrading may not be an option while it is not broken. For example some corporate and industrial networks can have 1,000s of computers and upgrading to a newer version of Windows requires new computers. So while they are within a protected network, why pay a million dollars?
Who maintains ArtisBrowser?
ArtisBrowser was developed by and is currently maintained by the team at ArtistScope, who are the leading developers of copy protection and DRM solutions. In fact it was ArtistScope who invented the first image protection for the Internet in 1998, and have since developed solutions for all media. The ArtistScope Site Protection Software (ASPS) can be installed on all Linux and Windows servers to provide the most secure copy protection for all website data and media that has ever been imagined.
Why ArtistScope Site Protection Software?
Firstly, the ArtistScope Site
Protection Software (ASPS) is incomparable.
There is no other solution like it. ASPS delivers encrypted web
pages to the ArtisBrowser that cannot be decrypted by any other
means. Other web browsers don't even get to see the encrypted
content and not even packet sniffers can extract any useful
information. Only when the ArtisBrowser validates its request is
the encrypted delivered, which ArtisBrowser decodes and displays
according to embedded tags governing copy, save, print, remote
viewing and device tolerance. For example some pages can be
allowed to print and site owners control which devices can
access their content, even though they may be using
ArtisBrowser.
Site owners have total control over who can access their web
content. Each user can be identified uniquely enabling users
accounts to be locked to devices so that accounts cannot be
shared or hacked. Site owners can also disallow devices that may
be considered insecure. For example the site owner can allow or
disallow Windows, Mac, iOS and Android depending on the level of
security that they require... mobile devices have many
limitations and consequently may not be as secure as Windows.
Mobile devices are also unstable and prone to changes and
updates.
Test Drive ASPS Copy Protection
ArtistScope provides many online
demonstrations of ASPS being used in all popular CMS such as WordPress, Moodle, Drupal, Joomla and DNN.
But if you want to see how your web site can be copy protected
and how effective that protection can be, check out this
ASPS Mirror where any web page can be scraped, even
remotely, and delivered from an ASPS server as a copy protected
page.
For more information about data and site protection please visit the
ArtistScope Site Protection Software (ASPS) website for info and online demos.
