[epub] RE: Web Theft

[Aileen Suquila-Santos <aileen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Aileen Suquila-Santos <aileen@columnist.com>


Here's another technique that I've seen at least one site use to protect 
their content from being copied:

Using frames, they placed their important content in adobe (pdf) format, 
with the pdf page's right-click function disabled.

The outer page of the frameset, of course, was simply for navigation.

I'm not sure if the View > Source function works on this one, but since the 
content-containing page is in right-click-disabled pdf, I'm guessing it 
doesn't.

(I know, I know, you want to know the site's URL so you can see what I'm 
talking about.  Sorry, but I found the site at work and bookmarked it on my 
pc there.  I'm home now, and I have no recollection of the site's name -- 
just its features.  I'll tell you the site's URL tonight.)


Aileen Suquila-Santos
Christian Writing at Suite 101
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/christian_writing


> I have a better idea, why not hide your source
> code completely by disabling the right-clcik
> function altogether.

While disabling the right click function does prevent one
viewing source code, it does not block the VIEW > SOURCE
button on the menu bar at the top of the browser
window.  A pirate can use that to see your source code.

A workaround is to put the entire content of the page
into a frame and then disable the right click button with
Javascript, so that VIEW > SOURCE only shows
the FRAMESET code, but even that has its downside,
since the page will not easily rank in search engines.

Another option is to scan the entire text into an image,
in gray tone to keep the file size down, and use it.
This however doesn't prevent a pirate from stealing the
entire graphic and slapping it up on their page.

I suggested - but haven't tested out - a rather more
elaborate but fun method playing around with two or
three sets of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and
rotating them around so that the *stolen* webpage
is forced to display text in the same color as the
page's background, thereby making it unreadable.

Of course, one more thing you can do is to place
all valuable content into a password protected
portion of your site and restrict access to a select
few. This could even be used to convert your site
to a pay-per-view model, as for instance, to read
past issues of your free e-zine.  Larry Chase of
Web Digest for Marketers uses such a strategy -
ezine free, archives $ X per year.

For lists of links, a method to prevent a pirate from
stealing the code off your page is to have all URLs
placed in an online database and code your links to
pull the URLs from the database dynamically.
Brian's website, List-Universe, has almost all its
resources coded in this way, take a look.

Hope this helps

Sincerely

Dr.MANI Sivasubramanian, MD





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