I co-run a rather popular music producers community (dandont.com) and we have a large number of videos and tuts about music production and in the past we have had major problems with other sites pure and simple ripping our tuts and making them look like their own.
I have looked at hotlink protection.. but no joy there.
Is their a way a page can be tired to a certain URL and out side that url some other message or page will display in place of the protected one?
ta muchly.
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Started by _*Creative Insanity_*, Nov 12 2007 12:02 PM
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#2 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:58 AM
wondered if this would be a tricky one. seems so.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 11:22 AM
I know that my host has a setting to stop hotlinking...maybe your's has the same?
#4 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 12:01 PM
Yeah I looked at that. Didn't do the trick. Was mainly for images and no pages.
I wanted to protect the actual php pages from scums ripping all our tuts.
The idea I was thinking of was some kind of session thing where pages only lasted a certain time and then expired. So that would mean if they grabbed the URL it would not work next time they tried it because it was expired.
I wanted to protect the actual php pages from scums ripping all our tuts.
The idea I was thinking of was some kind of session thing where pages only lasted a certain time and then expired. So that would mean if they grabbed the URL it would not work next time they tried it because it was expired.
Edited by Creative Insanity, 13 November 2007 - 12:04 PM.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 12:11 PM
Get a pro account with Copy Sentry you'll find the link bottom right on http://copyscape.com/
#6 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 12:18 PM
Thanks Donna, but I think I will look for a way to do this rather than create another bill. Enough online bills as it is. 
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 12:53 PM
#8 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 02:11 PM
Yeah I had a play with htaccess and managed to do is stop the pages displaying on my own site. PMSL.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 02:20 PM
Although I'm not much of a coder, I have an idea. Just make a javascript to check the address on the address bar. If the address does not match your domain, simply make an "if" statement to not load the page, or redirect to your site.
Again, Im not sure how exactly I would go about doing this, but I know it can be done.
Again, Im not sure how exactly I would go about doing this, but I know it can be done.
#10 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 05:19 PM
penny dropped.
if ip == blah.blah
display
else
display this.
yeah that should work
if ip == blah.blah
display
else
display this.
yeah that should work
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 05:21 PM
Plain and simple there is not 100% way of locking your content. There will always be around how ever you go about this. Thats pretty much your option with the internet. I would say just take legal action, or one other solution is generate the photo everytime to be given a random name when the page is loaded then after it has been used once it cannot be used again. Make something that will generate a random key and that key is only good once. Pull your image to the page through php not html.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 05:32 PM
Creative Insanity, on Nov 13 2007, 05:19 PM, said:
penny dropped.
if ip == blah.blah
display
else
display this.
yeah that should work
if ip == blah.blah
display
else
display this.
yeah that should work
No, not IP. I mean INTERNET URL. Like www.pixel2life.com.
If site url != pixel2life.com
then (donotload)
else(load)
Thats what I mean.
Edited by MyFlash13, 13 November 2007 - 05:37 PM.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 05:39 PM
It still won't work, anything can be ripped on the web. You think if this was possible other sites would of been using it long before anyone ever asked.
Your videos are easy to rip and as for text and images well you know how easy they are to take. You won't be able to stop them so just jump on the band wagon with every other tutorial site that's had tutorials or content ripped.
Otherwise don't upload them to the web.
Your videos are easy to rip and as for text and images well you know how easy they are to take. You won't be able to stop them so just jump on the band wagon with every other tutorial site that's had tutorials or content ripped.
Otherwise don't upload them to the web.
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 06:57 PM
Allright, then legally threaten them. Give them some important sounding legal yada-yada and some dire legal threats. Say you are going to sue them for x amount of money, if they dont remove the content. Ohh yeah, if you have a friend or relative who is a lawyer, even better, because then you can use a lawyers name to back you up.
After all that, they should remove the ripped content.
After all that, they should remove the ripped content.
#15 _*Creative Insanity_*
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Posted 13 November 2007 - 07:03 PM
I think Donna has a point, if it was possible it would of been done. But in saying that, maybe no one has just thought of a way to so it. Hmmm.
Just because something is not created does not mean it cannot be.
Just because something is not created does not mean it cannot be.
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