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Securely Publishing Documents

Hi,
We have a set of documents that we need to publish to be used by employees and sometimes by clients. We need to only let the users read the documents without being able to modify, print, copy or edit them. Is there any non-expensive solution to allow this? We were thinking of using SharePoint but it turned to be a bit expensive.
Please advise.
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In the modern computer age, that is very difficult.  About the only way to achieve that is to let them be read only on a computer that is secured and literally guarded by a security guard.  If you let them read them unsupervised on their own computers, the documents are out of your control.

We often get questions like this, especially about displaying pictures on web pages and preventing them from being copied.  The answer is very simple.  If you let me load it and display it on my computer, I can find a way to copy it and do whatever I want with it.
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Thank you Dave, what about using a web application that provides such features? I know that users always can use the "printscreen" option or even their mobiles to copy any needed info but the aim is to to preserve the integrity of the published documents and limit their editing/distribution to the concerned party. Am sure many companies face this problem when it comes to document dispatching.
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SharePoint Foundation Server is basically a free version of SharePoint. It is included with a MS Server license. So although the Server OS is not free, SharePoint Foundation installed on it is free. This version of SharePoint will run with SQL Express, another free version. So if you have a Windows server somewhere in your business, then you can get SharePoint for free.
Although this version is free, it will allow you to configure access and control just as you describe. It should meet your needs.

Hope that helps.
Thanks SneekCo. Can you guide me to a link where the configuration of SharePoint to meet this requirement is detailed?
Much appreciated
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