The following 4 Commandments are said to be in The Ark of The Covenant, along with the original Ten:

11. Thou Shalt Honor thy "Right Click Disabled" command, and not take it as a personal challenge to steal the code anyway.

12. Thou Shalt not steal my legally protected, copyrighted content, neither shalt thou "borrow", neither shall ye change 5 words and then call it thine own.

13. Thou Shalt Not Heist Mine Images, or split them into layers, or remove my watermarks.

14.  Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cyber-Neighbors' Pixels. Come up with thine own design ideas as much as possible.

Over at DynamicDrive.com, they have a text encrypter. This is what "Thou Shalt Not Steal" looks like when scrambled:

<script>

<!--

document.write(unescape("Thou%20Shalt%20Not%20Steal"));

//-->

</script>

Now that's actually pretty easy to read, so try this:

<script>

<!--

document.write(unescape("Mary%20had%20a%20little%20lamb%20whose%20fleece%20was%20white%20as%20snow%2C%20and%20everywhere%20that%20Mary%20went%2C%20the%20lamb%20was%20sure%20to%20go"));

//-->

</script>

That's the nursery rhyme, "Mary Had A Little Lamb".

When you scramble an entire page, like this one from my site, I am thinking it might help to deter content theft. Do you agree/disagree?

The weird thing is, this page comes up in Google SERP's repeatedly as no.1. So, somehow their spiders can read it (don't know about other SE's).

Any more ideas on how to protect our internet property? I'm seriously interested in your suggestions.


P.S. No insult intended to anyone’s faith...! Just havin' a little fun.

Lol @:

11. Thou Shalt Honor thy "Right Click Disabled" command, and not take it as a personal challenge to steal the code anyway.

Godda admit, Im defo one for this!! Not so much to "steal code" but if I see something that impresses me, id like to know how its done. quick right click *bedong!* javascript prompt ' Thou shalt not steal'.

so, right click again, holding it down. left click the "ok" button on the prompt, release right click and VIOLA!!! up pops the context menu.   

Its all just too easy. Best way to avoid this prob is not have anything happen at all on right clicks or create a custom context menu with useful site navigation.
see here: http://www dot thewhompingwillow dot com. Our members love ours!
but then:
Top browser menu--> View-->source
There ya go!! no amount of adding utf-8 spacing is going to stop that. lets see. top of my head here:
copy code, paste into dreamweaver, 'ctrl-F', find '%20' replace with ' ', Done, got yo' stuff.

I wrote something in php that makes it look like the source isnt viewable.
still building this site take a look if you want:
http://www dot quids-in-uk dot com

Of course, you can do everything you can to TRY and stop people, but at the end of the day, all commandments are easily broken.

How many people hast coverted thy neighbours ox?

Anyone using the anti-right click code is probably not someone I want to take code from anyways ;]

i agree with the other posters, that the right click disabled script is a poor idea that can be easily overcome. 

however, i do agree about text theft, text dissimilation, etc.  so far, i've had my text and images from http://www.vintagepostcards.org/Sturgeon-Falls.htm appear on Wikipedia (they were great, took it down within two hours), on one eBay "about me" page (went poof! less than 24 hours later courtesy of eBay), and had another postcard dealer ask me to critique her new website only to get there and discover text from...my website!  (resolved within 15 minutes of my e'mailing her that my pages are all copyrighted)

one of the better deterrents and monitoring systems i've found, and which i use, is copyscape, from copyscape.com.  i pay about $10 a month for it, although you can do it for free if you're willing to enter all the various pages in by hand.  it caught two of the three plagiarism instances i mentioned above, and would have caught the plagiarized website had it been up for more than a few days.

JohnnyB GOOD!

It all falls under Thou shalt Not Steal. but a lot of sites steal their content THEN put up a no-right-click code. That just eats my butt. I've even had stuff stolen from me only to find it on a no right click site. Bugger them. Rules are meant to be broken. I'd never steal anyone's original stuff, but if I like a code I'll surely and freely look at it. And sleep quite well at night too.



FYI: I just heard Mike Douglas died today, his 81st birthday. R.I.P. Mike.

http://www dot quids-in-uk dot com

GriffinsB,

Excellent! It only took me about 40 secs to figure it out though. But your idea will fool a lot of people!

In fact, I covet it. Can thou share it? I'm not familiar with Php.

VintageP, you've been very very lucky IMO. I've contacted thieves and politely asked them to remove my work/images from their site, only to be told to f' off, i.e. "So sue me...."

I conclude there is no "mine" or "yours" in cyber-space. What you think you own, you don't.

Therefore,

Commandment 15:  Thou Shalt Not Bother to Hire A Lawyer to Trademark/Copyright Thine Cyber-Stuff, because it is a waste of time & money.

I've contacted thieves and politely asked them to remove my work/images from their site, only to be told to f' off, i.e. "So sue me...."

If they are linking directly to you images (as they often do) - I like to rename it for my site, then replace the image with text that says "I'm a F***ing image thief"  or a nice old porno pic!

THEN askk them to stop using the images!
99.9% of the time it works

One method I used for a long time was to not have any breaks in your entire HTML code -- as one continuous line, it would drive people nuts trying to figure out your code.

hey ta, thats a really gud practice but are you sure only they will go nuts tryin to read the code or we might too if we read it at a later stage for any changes???
have any corrections for that?

vari_007 -- what I did at that time was maintain 2 seperate index pages ( index and index1 ) -- "index" was where I placed all of the code in a straight line -- "index1" was where all of the code was lined up down the page.

When I made changes, I simply made the changes in "index1" in a matter of seconds; copied and pasted it into the "index" file and uploaded to the server.

There you are! Then it becomes a gud practice.
really gud idea ta.
thanks

How `bout if we make our source code password protected?

Check this out!!

http://www.protware.com

And the program is FREE.... (no, I don't get a commission, I just found this by Googling).

Can you find the source code on this page?:

http://www.drpeterjones.com/hidden/hidden.html

The Cat Screams At Midnight

cool jewels,

in reading the faq for the password protection program, i find nothing in there that addresses the issue of whether search engines can find the keywords, etc. that i'd want them to find, when html, etc. is password protected or encrypted .  i'm not so sure this is a good plan.    if the program also creates pagese that one cannot back out of, such as the encrypted example you showed, this is even worse.  any good web page design should let a person back out to the previous page, instead of becoming "trapped" on any given page.

image theft - not much one can do about it really, although i find that an unobstrusive watermark which is easy to create will pretty easily discourage theft, while letting everyone else see the image - http://www.vintagepostcards.org/aboutus.htm

not saying that the pw protection _wouldn't_ work, just saying that it may have some undesirable side effects, in ways that i can't find addressed in their FAQ.

JohnnyB wrote:

The Cat Screams At Midnight

Ok, how'd you do that?

I am stumped....

its easy really - you don't have to use a web "browser" to get the pages you know

cooljools wrote:

Can you find the source code on this page?:

http://www.drpeterjones.com/hidden/hidden.html

Could u tell me how few people were able to see the code??
I am not able to. how did you see it JohnnyB or Mutilated1?

view the source on the start page, youll see 4 files in framesets. goto x.html, youll be redirected back to the start page via configuration.html. the goodies are in configuration.html. just hit STOP in your browser as it loads n view its source.
took 30 seconds.

the code i used to hide the source on www.quids-in-uk.com is very simple.
copy this:

<?PHP

//hide source code from idiots

echo"

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n";

// copy the above echo 100 times

//end code to hide source from idiots

?>

save that as whatever.php. copy the "echo" as many times as you want. i found that 100 times doesnt affect the page load time. 1000 times added about 2 /10ths second to it.
then just include that file above your opening html tags in all the files you want to hide.
I have a common header file for all my pages, so i just included it in that.

As i said, very simple. its only a deterant and as the comments suggest, its only to hide it from idiots.
you could do anything you wanted to hide the code (as per cooljools example) but again, it doesnt take a genius to find it. all they have to do is figure out how you hid it.

There is one other idea that no-one seems to have mentioned. what about "DIVing" a transparent gif (2x2 px) over the top of everything? Thatd stop anyone highlighting the text or right nicking your images. obviously, youd need to make sure its not over the top of any forms. could you somehow just CSS the gif over the top of any text classes you have? Dunno, no CSS freak, php's my thang!