protecting material on webpage

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Complete novice wanting to know how to prevent others from altering,
pirating, copy-and-pasting my web content. Is this a problem for any of you?
I've been to sites where (for reasons I don't know) it's impossible to
highlight and then copy; how do we do that on FP? Should original writings,
etc. be uploaded in .pdf format? Would really appreciate some discussion on
this. Many thanks.
 
Anything you see on the web can be copied. Using a suitably protected .pdf
might make the copying more difficult, but will not protect against
plaguarism. If you don't want it copied, don't put it on the web.
 
An addendum to the wise Ronx's comments

No-one can *alter* your code unless you allow them to (and I don't know how
that would happen)

Copying is open slather
 
trevor is right. if they don't have what is called author permission they
can't go in and rewrite you coding.

about the copying pics and stuff. what you could right is a No-right click
rule. This is not fool proof, but for those who don't know the other ways of
copying stuff from your site. well it would help.

there are also sites out there that are like watch dogs for your site. some
are free to sign up for. what happen is if you find that someone has copied a
picture w/out permission you go to this watch dog and they look into it. If
it is found they did copy w/out permission they end up having their site shut
down.
 
there are also sites out there that are like watch dogs for your site. some
are free to sign up for. what happen is if you find that someone has copied a
picture w/out permission you go to this watch dog and they look into it. If
it is found they did copy w/out permission they end up having their site shut
down.
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I would be wary of handing money to such a "watchdog" to look into
other sites using my images. Anyone publishing someone else's images
would surely take the precaution of changing the filename first. What,
then, would this dog be watching out for?

fido
 
about the copying pics and stuff. what you could right is a No-right click
rule. This is not fool proof, but for those who don't know the other ways
of
copying stuff from your site. well it would help.
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It would NOT help. First of all, it's as safe as using a sieve for an
umbrella. Second, it brands your web site as having been created by an
amateur, which is bad, bad for business, bad for detectives everywhere.
Third, no advice is better than bad advice, but when bad advice is given
(and one cannot avoid doing this from time to time, no matter how skilled
one is), the next best thing is to realize it and not repeat the mistake.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Ambiguity has a certain quality to it.
 
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