Web Content Stealing

thumbtak · 11-29-2006, 06:08 AM

I am unsure if this is the right section to post it but thought it might be as it involes I assume some form of coding. My issue is I want to protect content from being stolin off my website. I found somone already doing that.

I have iframes on my site and all my content loads in iframes in the center. Anyway to do this I would think that all my pages would require to be loaded in the iframe and if it is not loaded in there then a certain page would appear stating the content is being stolen.

Is there anyway that this could be setup to do this?

megamoose · 11-29-2006, 08:15 AM

There is no way to stop people from copying your content. The only thing you can do is make it harder for them to find it.

What exactly is it you wish to protect? Is it protect them from copying images, or from copying text?

Mark

thumbtak · 11-29-2006, 12:08 PM

I am trying to stop them from linking a direct link off there website to a major page on mine...they did this on all my major pages. For instant I have a home page...they directly link to the home page.

StupidScript · 11-29-2006, 09:24 PM

If it's all being stolen from a consistent IP address or domain and they are merely linking to your content, then you should be able to block all requests from that IP address or domain ... but (a) if it's a changing number of IP addresses or domains, then you'll need an automated detection system to provide the protection you need;

and/or (b) if they have downloaded your content (using, at the minimum, the extremely simple mechanisms provided by any browser), then they are actually hosting your obviously excellent content for the purpose of making money, and there is little you can do about it except for starting some sort of legal process.

Bummer, dude.

thumbtak · 11-29-2006, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StupidScript

If it's all being stolen from a consistent IP address or domain and they are merely linking to your content, then you should be able to block all requests from that IP address or domain

How do I do this?

StupidScript · 11-30-2006, 01:03 PM

What operating system is your server running on?

thumbtak · 11-30-2006, 01:29 PM

Linux with Apache but I don't host the website off my computer I use an online web serves.

StupidScript · 11-30-2006, 01:39 PM

S'cool ... okay ...

1) If you have root access to the server you can simply add this to the end of whatever is in /etc/hosts.deny:

Code:

ALL: IP.ADD.RE.SS

where "IP.ADD.RE.SS" is the offender's IP address.

2) You're probably running PHP, so you can probably include a header file in your pages that will effect the ban:

Code:

<?php
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']=='IP.ADD.RE.SS') {
 header("Location: http://www.fbi.gov");
 exit;
}
?>

You don't need both of these ... either one will do.

thumbtak · 11-30-2006, 06:43 PM

Is there some form of javascript or html coding that I could use.

StupidScript · 11-30-2006, 08:16 PM

Javascript:

Code:

if (location.hostname.indexOf("baddomain")!=-1) {
location.href="http://www.fbi.gov";
}

thumbtak · 11-30-2006, 10:47 PM

I tryed loading the javascript in the head of my HTML page and it just displayed as text. Is that the wrong place to put it.

KieranTaylor0403 · 11-30-2006, 11:31 PM

Hi there,

You could place all your text as images, and add descriptions and tags to them so Google still crawls the site content, although you would have to update this every time you changed content...give it a try, it would me the thief would have to type all of the content...

.

Regards,
Kieran Taylor.

thumbtak · 11-30-2006, 11:40 PM

Yea but what about my videos and other content like that which my site is mostly...I could even if I was worried about the text make it a flash file. Flash is not as comment knowledge to edit.

StupidScript · 12-01-2006, 10:51 AM

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (location.hostname.indexOf("baddomain")!=-1) {
location.href="http://www.fbi.gov";
}
</script>

Keep in mind that this will ONLY be effective if they are actually linking to your content and have not downloaded your pages to their server. If they are using their own copies, they can easily strip this out.

You can see that it works by replacing "baddomain" with "yourdomain" (whatever that is). When you load the page into your browser, you will be redirected to the FBI website. After you see that it works, don't forget to change "yourdomain" to "baddomain" (whatever that is).