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Jetteh22
I saw someone on here questioning about disabling the right click.
I found that to be VERY ineffective as people could always just hit print screen to copy the image...

This is a neat little trick I figured out (because I'm going to be using it on a new site that i may or may not do, for those of you who know me by now lol) that will stop people from being able to copyright TEXT ONLY from your screen.

While they can STILL hit print screen to copy the text, it's ineffective as they'd have to retype it all anyways, ect.. And most people arent that desperate...

Make a page and put this:
CODE
<form action="copyproof.php" method="post">

<textarea name="text">
</textarea>

<input type="submit">

</form>


And then make a page called copyproof.php and put this

CODE
<?php
$text = $_POST['text'];
$text = str_replace(" ","<font style='font-size: 3pt; visibility: hidden;'>X</font>",$text);
?>
<b>PREVIEW</b><br>
<?php echo $text;?>
<br><br>
<b>CODE:</b><br>
<textarea>
<?php echo $text;?>
</textarea>


Then use the form that you did..

Basically what this does is.. if you type...

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

and somebody tries to copy it.. when they hit PASTE onto notepad or something it will come out looking like:

aXbXcXdXeXfXgXhXiXjXkXlXmXnXoXpXqXrXsXtXuXvXwXxXyXz

But, on your page it will look like they're simple spaces tongue.gif

A demo can be found here: http://www.thinkcreactive.com/COPYRIGHTTHEFT.PHP
Andrew
LMFAO, nice try. but I could use find and replace in notepad and replace all the X's for " "'s biggrin.gif

and If I use firefox and hit View>Page Style>No Style it shows all the X's
Jetteh22
That's the point though.
If it's an EXTREMELY long tutorial, ect...

Who the hell would want to sit there and replace EVERY SINGLE X?

And the X's can be viewed if you want, through firefox.. It's not supposed to be "invisible" though - it's basically supposed to be an easy way to stop copyright theft.

And if you use a fixed sized text you can always have it do a random letter and/or number for every single space - that way it would be EXTREMELY tedious to sit ther and replace every single one.
Andrew
Not "every single X" just hit replace all, then skim over the page and make sure it didn't take any NEEDED one's out.

True on the random letter.
Jetteh22
It's what I'm going to use when/if I ever get a website I want to get up, up... (god my grammar can be horrible somtimes..)

But uh.. yeah it's what i'm gonna do so peoples poems/stories/articles cant be stolen -as easily.-
Jacob
Haha. Just read this thread and that is the first thing that comes to mind.
Find>X - Replace all X with " ".

Lol. Nice try though.

Jacob.
machine
Well, there's this Website Plagiarism Search service here. You can use their "Content protected by Copyscape" badge on your site and use the service to see if your textual content is being 'used' by anyone else smile.gif .

And if you find anyone who's plagiarised your content, you could list them on your site, so that they know that you know...

How effective a deterrant is it? I frankly don't know, but it seems to be pretty popular -- I've seen many blogs with the badge smile.gif .
wozzym
Even if it doesn't work, thanks for doing it. It is still a step that helps people
machine
smile.gif
Andrew
QUOTE(NaRzY @ Jun 23 2008, 10:07 PM) *
Haha. Just read this thread and that is the first thing that comes to mind.
Find>X - Replace all X with " ".

Lol. Nice try though.

Jacob.


Seriously do you JUST go around and copy other peoples posts? Or don't you read the replies?

...... sigh
Jacob
Chill out man. biggrin.gif

Jacob.
Brandon
QUOTE(Trippin7464 @ Jun 24 2008, 09:45 AM) *
Seriously do you JUST go around and copy other peoples posts? Or don't you read the replies?

...... sigh

Trippin7464 I noticed you copieds Jacob's post wink.gif
bezz
The biggest deterrent is having pride in your own work. People who steal content are cowards with no skill and their websites are almost always doomed from the start. If it becomes known a site steals content, people lose respect for it and stop visiting. Why bother wasting precious time trying to deter thieves when you can spend that time creating new content of your own?
Jack
I hear making all words an incorrect spelling boosts search engine rankings rolleyes.gif
bezz
QUOTE(Jack @ Jun 24 2008, 07:19 AM) *
I hear making all words an incorrect spelling boosts search engine rankings rolleyes.gif

Haha.
Yeah, just imagine my site could be the number 1 result for AXcXtXiXoXnXsXcXrXiXpXtX...........
Great point Jack. You would essentially kill any traffic gained through search engines.
Jack
This method is only good for stopping bots try and copy content, e.g. go to http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_...q=hidemyass.com

.. and try to copy any statistical text "Hidemyass.com has a traffic rank of: 4,66480" is what my paste says, when clearly the site says 4480
IamShipon1988
I think alexa does that to all rankings for protection (not sure why since its really simple to just type it). Anyhow "find x >> replace all" will not work too well because your computer will replace all "x" even those that are used in the article such as "thatxextremelyxslowxox" will be replaced with "that e tremely slow o" instead of "that extremely slow ox." So its a really good method although I think you can do something similar with htaccess by limiting the display and posting. Btw I tried your demo and pasted it in NotePad but it doesn't show any "x" in replace of space. I'm using Firefox at the moment, not sure what the problem is. Ah just checked, I needed to re-start my firefox. Gah 3.0 has some bad bugs. One quick question, would this not have some sort of effect when printing an article? When printing hidden texts become visible majority of the time.
MrTouz
in that case, isn't there a script that switch any text content to Image ?
My older host (website) provided me with this 'email as image', i put in my email and it gives me my email as an image... well you could create a way to switch all your texts as an image ? (with PHP) and make sure it does not display when 'view page source'

I think the thing people should do is NOT stop people from stealing content but make it harder tongue.gif
Jetteh22
I agree with you MrTouz - The reason I made this was because it would make it -harder- for somebody to steal the content, much harder.

Sure, maybe the replace all spaces with X wouldn't work well because they could always go back and do it.. And X is just.. well, not a commonly used letter.

But if, instead of X, you used.. T, or a random letter for each space (t, a, s, e, o, ect) that are common letters, it would be nearly impossible for them to do it unless they went through and manually deleted each one (which would be a huge pain in the ass, especially if the letters all stayed lowercase becuase it would be hard to differentiate between the spaces and the words...)


And as for the search engine results... That's true - If you own a tutorial site, it would be a pain in the ass for search engines. But for me, the site I plan on making would be for readers and writers and the story's wouldn't appear in the search engine anyways (only the main site pages) so it wouldn't matter for me personally.
Andrew
Well in that case jetteh making the text into an image would probably be the best idea, and you could include a watermark on it so the image couldn't be stolen. It's pretty simple with with php.
Mark
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