Looking for a program to stop people copying text and pics from my sites

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Stefan B Rusynko

No such beast exists

Just don't publish it and they won't copy it

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Guest

You can't.

Publishing to the Web means you put your pictures and text
up there for others to download. If they can't download
it, how can they read your words or see your pictues?

What you might do, if you wanna go through the trouble, is
disable the right click open to save picture, and instead
display a rude little remark like "Copyright material,
downloading is immoral and unethical instead of showing
the default right click options. There are many Java
examples all over the net on how to do this funtion.

This doesn't stop someone that has just a small idea of
what they are doing if they want your picture, but it does
stop some less experienced users.

Even if you did this, all anyone has to do is hit "Print
Scrn" on their keyboard and copy the screen image to the
cliboard, paste into any graphic program and crop it.
Alsom, scan of the temporary files folder will show the
picture sitting there ripe for taking.

You can't have people view your content without
downloading to their computer, end of story.

You could publish in a format like PDF, that makes it
harder to get to the images and text, but this defeats the
purpose of using a web site, which is to make your content
publicaly available, easily.

Even if you could make it harder to copy and paste text,
its not hard just to re-type something.

Good luck.
 
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Guest

Go to the MS Knowledge Base article #317330, 'How To Prevent Selection of Text in a Web Page Using FP2000'. Not sure if you're using FP2000, but this provides the JavaScript to prevent text being copied.
 
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yah that'll do it!...or they could just save the monthy fee and not publish anything :)


| Have you tried password protecting the website and not giving out the pw to anyone?
 
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Guest

But then he won't have anything to do with his knowledgeble expertise in HTML. Besides, "someone" out ther
needs him as a hosting customer.
 
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dave

You can still copy the text....it stops nothing

CM said:
Go to the MS Knowledge Base article #317330, 'How To Prevent Selection of
Text in a Web Page Using FP2000'. Not sure if you're using FP2000, but this
provides the JavaScript to prevent text being copied.
 
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Kevin Spencer

Okay, people, can we just agree that you BOTH said "you can't?" ;-)

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Guest

You say that there is no such beast but I was on a website yesterday and I could not copy. If there is a way the average person doesn't know how and I think that might be protection enough

Thanks

----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: ----

No such beast exist

Just don't publish it and they won't copy i

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Kevin Spencer

You say that there is no such beast but I was on a website yesterday and I
could not copy. If there is a way the average person doesn't know how and I
think that might be protection enough.

Hold on there, Thom. You need to think this through.

First, you said "I could not copy". That is not a measure of anything but
your own subjective experience. As an example, let's say that you have a
newborn baby. He can't copy anything. Why is his experience irrelevant?
Because it doesn't represent a meaningful segment of the population. Neither
does any single individual. Therefore, the fact that you personally could
not copy something is only a measure of your personal ability, and not
relevant to the issue.

Second, are you going to lock your car or house with a lock that "the
average person" can't break into?

Third, "might" and "protection enough" are really fuzzy concepts. Hardly
worth taking any time to consider.

Fourth, and perhaps most important: What is the purpose of wanting to
protect your work? All other issues are dependent on the answer to this
question. You need to have a concrete reason for taking whatever measures
you are taking. If it is to prevent another web developer from using your
code, well, you've already ruled out "the average person" as a candidate. If
you change it to "the average web developer" then your security measures are
useless.

In other words, you're wasting your time because you haven't thought the
issue through. Your best bet at this point would be to cut your losses and
put your efforts towards something worth your time.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

Thom said:
You say that there is no such beast but I was on a website yesterday and I
could not copy. If there is a way the average person doesn't know how and I
think that might be protection enough.
Thanks.

----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: -----

No such beast exists

Just don't publish it and they won't copy it

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Thomas A. Rowe

In most cases it is not the average person that want to copy your content. All anyone has to do is
use IE File Menu | Save As to get you page and associate images.

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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Thom said:
You say that there is no such beast but I was on a website yesterday and I could not copy. If
there is a way the average person doesn't know how and I think that might be protection enough.
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

Provide the URL, and we'll all tell you how to copy their images

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| You say that there is no such beast but I was on a website yesterday and I could not copy. If there is a way the average person
doesn't know how and I think that might be protection enough.
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| Thanks.
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| ----- Stefan B Rusynko wrote: -----
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| No such beast exists
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| Just don't publish it and they won't copy it
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| _____________________________________________
| SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
| To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
| http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| _____________________________________________
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| | As above cheers
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Guest

yes there is something you can do to prevent your site from being copied. just incorporate a access denied in your page for when someone right clicks on it they get an error....so you r wrong bud
 
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Guest

try this in your page, works for me

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"><!-

var message="FUNCTION DISABLED"
function click(e

if (document.all)
if (event.button == 2)
alert(message)
return false


if (document.layers)
if (e.which == 3)
alert(message)
return false



if (document.layers)
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN)

document.onmousedown=click
// --></SCRIPT>
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

In IE all you have to do is use View Menu | Source or if you want the actual page and images, use
File Menu | Save As | Complete HTML also there are many offline browser application available the
will allow someone to copy most of a web site.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================


dirk said:
yes there is something you can do to prevent your site from being copied. just incorporate a
access denied in your page for when someone right clicks on it they get an error....so you r wrong
bud
 

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