CB Vendors are literally GETTING STOLEN of Thousands of Dollars...

15 years ago

Problem there is that people look at your robots.txt file. I am currently requiring people who purchase my CB product to send me an email with their receipt number. I then direct them to a download site for the product.

They don't seem to mind and it has cut the theft out completely.

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Ricky Parker

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Problem there is that people look at your robots.txt file. I am currently requiring people who purchase my CB product to send me an email with their receipt number. I then direct them to a download site for the product.

They don't seem to mind and it has cut the theft out completely.

AL

True.

But you can protect an entire folder with your robots.txt file. And then create a blank index.htm file in that folder. And then within the folder name your actually download page something hard to guess.

Again this is just another step to take.

There are so many other ways people get stuff though.

And robots.txt files don't stop everyone from crawling at times.

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Adeel_Chowdhry

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Problem there is that people look at your robots.txt file. I am currently requiring people who purchase my CB product to send me an email with their receipt number. I then direct them to a download site for the product.

They don't seem to mind and it has cut the theft out completely.

AL

You gotta be kidding me...MANUAL WORK??? NO WAY!

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Allen Graves 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Adeel_Chowdhry

You gotta be kidding me...MANUAL WORK??? NO WAY!

It helps when you know that sending that one email is making you $50. It's not that nad, really. You get an email, you copy your template reply, insert their name and click send. BAM - 50 bucks.

I know what you mean, though. Shame I can't have it automated. After checking my stats, I found that at least one copy of the product was being stolen every day...mostly via Alexa's search engine completely ignoring the robots file.

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sylviad

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Problem there is that people look at your robots.txt file. I am currently requiring people who purchase my CB product to send me an email with their receipt number. I then direct them to a download site for the product.

They don't seem to mind and it has cut the theft out completely.

AL

Yes, but what's to stop buyers from passing on your download link once they get it? You'd have to be constantly changing the download link... manually - wouldn't you?

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Allen Graves

Problem there is that people look at your robots.txt file. I am currently requiring people who purchase my CB product to send me an email with their receipt number. I then direct them to a download site for the product.

My email would be requesting a refund.

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Daniel Molano

15 years ago

DLGuard does the trick I believe. Mine are not indexed.

Just get DLGuard and it's solved.

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Floyd Fisher 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

DLGuard does the trick I believe. Mine are not indexed.

Just get DLGuard and it's solved.

Ditto.

I was getting thieved right and left before I installed DL guard.

Now, it's set up so even if I were to post the download links here, you couldn't get 'em (I tested this, and it's true).
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Floyd Fisher 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

DLGuard does the trick I believe. Mine are not indexed.

Just get DLGuard and it's solved.

Yep, I could post my download links on this forum, and you still can't get them.
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freelikehell

15 years ago

Use the following code in the your .htaccess file (also in the root)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(Mozilla|Opera)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}!(Slurp|surfsafely)
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ /someotherfile [L]

-- This shows the robots.txt to SE Spiders only .. add a few more browsers to the top line, if you want, like :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(Mozilla|Opera|IE)

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samstephens

15 years ago

Keep in mind that robots.txt files also don't stop people from posting your download URL on forums and other warez websites.

If you really are serious about stopping people from sharing your download page, or breaking in, then you'll need to invest in a download management system, like DLGuard.

A sale or two, and you'll have it paid off. The time it saves you and professional edge it gives your business will pay you back for years to come.

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Fender85 15 years ago

Yeah, DLGuard is the best way to go, but as a quick answer to the person afraid of people checking out your robots.txt file, you can get the same effect by typing just part of the folder/filename.

Like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /fol

Would disallow /folder, folder.html, and anything else starting with "fol" - so because of that, you do have to be a little careful, but most CB merchants only have a couple front end pages anyway, so it's usually not an issue.
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Jared Alberghini

15 years ago

What about the non-technical people that are still getting their products stolen?

This is a big problem that CB has to deal with... not each individual user... IMO

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freelikehell

15 years ago

I also have a download protector script.. Its a one page script and takes just 2 minutes to setup.
It protects your download links..
You can name your folder anything, and just mention it in the script, and you're done.. Reply here if you need more detail. I'll post the script and explain how it works...

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Steven Carl Kelly

15 years ago

I don't sell anything on CB, but my DL links are all unique and auto-generated, they're encoded (secretly) so that I know who belongs to each unique link, and they expire.

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Andy Money 15 years ago

CB should offer inhouse DL protection, it's common sense.
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- samstephens 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mrsleep99
  
  CB should offer inhouse DL protection, it's common sense.
  
  Maybe you can recommend to them that they buy the DLGuard business, and I'll retire to an island somewhere
  
  Seriously though, there's not really any payment processors out there that do this - it's pretty specialised which is why the payment processors generally allow 3rd party companies who do specalise in this handle it.
  
  Basically it opens up a LOT more customer support issues for the company, and so they'd have to increase their sales commission rates to compensate.
  
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Charles Harper

15 years ago

Wont Fantasos protect you from this kind of thing in addition to DL Guard?

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Floyd Fisher 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Wont Fantasos protect you from this kind of thing in addition to DL Guard?

Yeah, but why waste money buying a swiss army knife when all you need is the tweezers?
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- Charles Harper 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Floyd Fisher
  
  Yeah, but why waste money buying a swiss army knife when all you need is the tweezers?
  
  You are right on that one.
  
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LB

15 years ago

99% of theft is people uploading products to torrent/warez/file-sharing sites after they've purchased an item and then insta-refunded it.

Even though protecting download pages is great, keep in mind that the real theft is often actual redistribution of the product.

The multi-billion dollar entertainment industry has not yet conquered this so we should not expect to...this is the reason that most of the big names have moved to physical products and staggered membership info.

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Charles Harper

15 years ago

That makes sense with physical products

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bgmacaw

15 years ago

This is actually an opportunity. Create a fake cbreciept page with a few throwaway downloads and a 'one time offer' for a real product you want to sell. Then get the fake page indexed.

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Steven Wagenheim 15 years ago

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Originally Posted by bgmacaw

This is actually an opportunity. Create a fake cbreciept page with a few throwaway downloads and a 'one time offer' for a real product you want to sell. Then get the fake page indexed.

Yeah, cuz people who are searching for products to steal can't wait to buy one time offers, lol.

The multi-billion dollar entertainment industry has not yet conquered this so we should not expect to...this is the reason that most of the big names have moved to physical products and staggered membership info.

And their products are still being pirated.

CB should offer inhouse DL protection, it's common sense.

If the website owner isn't concerned about protecting his own site, why should CB worry about it?

It sucks, but, on the bright side, most of these people wouldn't have bought in the first place, and if they did, they would have refunded. Sure, they're getting your stuff free, but most of them will never even read it, let alone put it into practice.

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Louis Raven

15 years ago

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

DLGuard, in my humble opinion, is the best possible way to handle fulfillment of digital products. And I think it's got enough history behind it now that it's one of those "No Brainer" tools every marketer needs to have.

If you stop and think about it though, the problem for those selling info products is actually that you completely lose control of your product once the order is filled. As others have pointed out, hiding your download page is only half the battle (and perhaps the easiest part of it).

Unless you want to spring for around $50K or so to Adobe, there's just no way to do any sort of rights management with PDF's. That's why I don't even bother any more - I stick to scripts and software where I can control the problem and disable licenses with refunds and chargebacks.

But, in researching this further, I came across a lot of discussion over the benefit of PDF versus exe type ebooks. But I only found generalizations and no hard numbers, which makes me wonder if anyone has ever tested this.

I know the core argument - people don't like downloading and installing exe's, but they download and install ours every day. It doesn't make sense to me that someone wouldn't download and install an executable file that they paid for and ran a virus/trojan check on.

There is such an easy way to control the distribution of every single ebook when it's in an executable format that it seems worth exploring or re-exploring.

Don't give up on that, Mike. I'd get endless pleasure disabling an .exe on someone who got a chargeback

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tomw

15 years ago

As has been said and recommended by hundreds of warriors for years, DL Guard is a top product that protects your download pages. But what about when someone is in possession of your products, such as ebooks and software? How can you protect them then? How can you stop your products being passed around and uploaded to warez sites and torrents?

Well there is a product that prevents this and it has been around for a number of years, a product called;

White Knight Protector

Many marketers have been using it for ages. Its even recommended by John Delavera...

Armand Morin, has just released a similar product too;

ProductPadlock

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15 years ago

Originally Posted by tomw

Well there is a product that prevents this and it has been around for a number of years, a product called;

White Knight Protector

Many marketers have been using it for ages. Its even recommended by John Delavera...

Armand Morin, has just released a similar product too;

ProductPadlock

I fail to see how either of those products can prevent determined piracy of information products, Thomas.

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tomw

15 years ago

Originally Posted by faxinator

I fail to see how either of those products can prevent determined piracy of information products, Thomas.

Steve,

Because they restrict access. They also facilitate individual tracking of each product sold and they only allow them to be opened by some sort of code that I am too technically inept to understand. However, it is something to do with only being able to open the products on the same and only the same IP address, or something similar, from which the products where purchased. They have an interface that actually allows you, the merchant, to completely lock them, so they cannot be viewed or used, should you choose to do so when you see it being flagged via the interface that it is being used by a machine that does not correspond with the one that purchased it.

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Steven Carl Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by tomw

Because they restrict access. They also facilitate individual tracking of each product sold and they only allow them to be opened by some sort of code that I am too technically inept to understand. However, it is something to do with only being able to open the products on the same and only the same IP address, or something similar, from which the products where purchased. They have an interface that actually allows you, the merchant, to completely lock them, so they cannot be viewed or used, should you choose to do so when you see it being flagged via the interface that it is being used by a machine that does not correspond with the one that purchased it.

I didn't know your level of technical expertise going in, so...

If I can open it on my PC, I can duplicate it and distribute it in one form or another, regardless of any electronic safeguards applied.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by tomw

As has been said and recommended by hundreds of warriors for years, DL Guard is a top product that protects your download pages. But what about when someone is in possession of your products, such as ebooks and software? How can you protect them then? How can you stop your products being passed around and uploaded to warez sites and torrents?

Well there is a product that prevents this and it has been around for a number of years, a product called;

White Knight Protector

Many marketers have been using it for ages. Its even recommended by John Delavera...

Armand Morin, has just released a similar product too;

ProductPadlock

Thomas

Above are two great ideas but from a customers standpoint I am not to crazy about buying something that logs into a server to check whether my copy is legit or not.

Whats happens when that server goes down or company goes out of business?
Any protection systems that claims to allow you to revoke a license requires the software to check with server.

Face it all a cracker has to do is replace the code that checks for this and bingo their goes your protection.

Not saying that you shouldn't protect your protects but not at expense of customer. Microsoft can't protect their stuff what makes you think you can..

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15 years ago

Hi freelikeheel please delete : "Do a G search for:xxxxxx"

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Dixiebelle 15 years ago

This may sound like a silly question, but shouldn't Google share some of the responsibility for the problem? After all, they're the ones putting the pages out for the crooks to find. You would think they could set the robots to ignore anything that says "download".

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Asher

15 years ago

Hi Ritoban,

There's good content in your post but PLEASE, remove that code.

You're teaching those who are reading this how to steal the
products - even if your intention is good in the first place. Worse
still... you reveal who they can steal from!

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freelikehell

15 years ago

Hi Asher,

Point taken, and removed it. But, this post has got no meaning now.

Anyhow, I shall post a thread soon with a small script that I'm currently developing which anybody can use to protect their download links.. I'll be giving it away for free...

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15 years ago

Originally Posted by freelikehell

Hi Asher,

Point taken, and removed it. But, this post has got no meaning now.

Anyhow, I shall post a thread soon with a small script that I'm currently developing which anybody can use to protect their download links.. I'll be giving it away for free...

Thanks Ritoban,

The thread still has meaning and I've been wondering about a way
to discuss this very same thing without revealing the code to it.

Here's a few suggestions I've got to protect your download pages...
I hope I'm not hijacking the thread by posting this information but
take it if you will.

1. Use images instead of text - because there are certain words
that these pirates use to get to your download page.

For exactly what words those are... it's a little troublesome but
I can reveal what those words are ONLY to existing CB vendors.
Will need a PM though.

If no one wants it, that's fine too.

2. Use a blog - fill them up with words like "Download link" and
stuff that would usually appear in download pages.

This is setting up the needle-in-haystack strategy where you hide
the actual download link by throwing in a lot of download links to
other stuff.

The pirate will have to take some effort to find the link that he
wants and if you do it right in your blog... he'll give up eventually.

Besides, this gives you a good excuse to use viral marketing.

3. Send by email - like what Allen Graves suggested, sending
it by email.

One way that I'm using is to totally remove the download page...
I send the download link via e-mail and the only people who
can get it are those who join via the list.

One way to encourage people to do that is that I state that
I give free updates/upgrades to the product so they need to
opt-in.

This helps to build a list as well (an opt-in buyers list is $$$ if
treated well)

4. Robots.txt - coding your robots.txt

This is something that I don't really like to do because if you
don't know what you're doing and you make a mistake, it
might cause the search engines to NOT come visit your site
or index your site totally.

I've seen that happen before with a friend's site. All he did
was to misplace a comma and his whole site was "forgotten"
because the robots.txt tells the search engine robots about
instructions to follow... he had unwittingly told the search
engine robots to never come back.

5. Use other media - pretty much like the first one of using
images.

Difference is that you can provide a little more entertainment
value and/or give the impression of overdelivering.

People just like to see more media used to transmit information.
Video or audio will do just fine.

6. Get DLGuard - Almost everyone here already knows the
power of DLGuard and it's a good way of protecting your products.

If you're selling information products, investing in a good script
to protect your download links is like hiring a good security guard.

A cheap one is like hiring security guards that go to sleep or
slack off when no one's looking. They have some kind of protection
or deterring factor but if someone's intent on stealing and he/she
has some basic skills, he'll get the download link.

Plus, I do believe Sam Stephens updates his DLGuard often...

Hope this helps.

Asher

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Fendi Salim

15 years ago

In the long run, there's currently no way to foolproof 100% downloadable products.

Like previous posts has mentioned, someone can just buy 'em, download 'em legally, get a refund and share 'em outright. Even an email to a list with an attachment is enough to spread 'em.

Protecting download pages at least stops the newbies and those with no money to buy and refund...

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freelikehell

15 years ago

Here is the basic Blueprint that I propose:

1) Create a database and a table with some basic fields like 'name', 'email', 'password, 'invoice', etc..

2) Use the basic PHP script given by CB to test whether the user has come AFTER purchasing or not. Else redirect them to an error page

3) Check the database with the values provided by CB, if the user already exists in your database or not. If already does, then show them an error page stating that 'they have been mailed the download link earlier'.

4) If all is in the Green, then Add the user to the database with values provided by CB, and show them the thankyou page.

Absolutely 100% foolproof. Although, the code needs to be secure to prevent any hacking.. Use md5 encryption(PHP) for password to be safe.

Will build a configurable basic script around this model soon...

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Re-cycle

15 years ago

Wow I did the search (before you edited it) found everyone's thank you page there. It just shows you how much Junk products are available on clickbank!

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samstephens

15 years ago

Absolutely 100% foolproof

Actually that's just one small part of creating a download management script.

Remember that after someone gets to your download page, they can just pass the link around to everyone.

To make it more foolproof you'll need to set the download page and download links to expire after a certain amount of time and certain number of download attempts.

Then you have the problem of links expiring and people wanting to redownload, so you'll need to create an easy to use interface that'll allow the admin to reset download timers and counters, and resend download links.\

And since you need to hide the raw download link (otherwise, whats the point in security?), you'll need to set up a section in your admin area where you can add diffrerent products, set up their real download URL's, and customise other options such as allowing connection to different Clickbank accounts.

Then you need to set up a download script that'll download the file for your customer without ever showing the real download location.

There is a LOT of work in creating a good quality download management system.

These projects have a tendency to grow huge - I know from first hand experience

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freelikehell

15 years ago

Hey Sam,
I've thought over that and developed a one page script that only lets a user download if he/she is logged in and successfully authenticated. So, that leaves out the direct link sharing part.

Moreover, even while downloading, the user won't know the folder from where it is downloaded. It only shows the PHP get variables in the URL.

Sound good?

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GeorgR.

15 years ago

Or you get DLG and protect your downloads.

And yes...even me as a "pro" i occasionally see "open" files of mine apearing on google.

1) ALWAYS have an index.html to avoid listing of folders in google. If a site has no index.html it will sooner or later show up in google listing all your folder.
2) use ROBOTS.TXT and disallow your folders.
3) Use DLG.

and dont be dumb:

Dont use "ThankYou.html", dont use YOURSITE.COM/download/PRODUCTNAME.pdf

Just yesterday i saw some example, say someone having a book "googlemoney.pdf"..then PLEASE, PLEASE dont be a dumbo and put it on your site under SITENAME.COM/download/googlemoney.pdf

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Steven Carl Kelly

15 years ago

4) Or make certain your download page doesn't exist.

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GeorgR.

15 years ago

freelikehell!

Do you know that over at the black hat forums every "warez haxor" knows about it.....so it would be fair to actually write it clearly HERE so vendors see where's the problem! It doesnt make sense to hide the information here, IMHO. (Needles to say i know what URL search you are talking about

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freelikehell

15 years ago

Hi George,
I do realize that at the BH forums everyone knows it. But, that doesn't give me the right to disclose it at this WH forum.
This thread was created for Vendors to learn to protect their download links and save their Sales/Customers.

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Mike Hill

15 years ago

Yes DLGuard is the best solution out there bar none. Thankfully Sam did not make it a monthly recurring membership

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freelikehell

15 years ago

Wow! Sam. I am REALLY impressed. This must really be a first.
Your product is considered an industry standard...
All the best. Someday, I'll surely try DLG..

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Michael Taylor

15 years ago

Yay DLGuard! I just bought it!

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samstephens

15 years ago

Thanks Freelikehell, I appreciate the interest

Yes DLGuard is the best solution out there bar none. Thankfully Sam did not make it a monthly recurring membership

Haha, yeah, otherwise Sam would be able to afford some staff to help him out. I kick myself every day

Just kidding, by the way, I really am happy with my business model

Yay DLGuard! I just bought it!

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Welcome Michael

Let me know if you need anything, or have any questions about it - I'm happy to help!

cheers
Sam

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Frank Bruno

14 years ago

RAP protects your download pages by providing a unique download url for each purchase. You can set the download link to expire at any time interval that you want.

Of course you get all the other "bells and whistles" like integrated affiliate system, oto's, etc.

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JustVisiting

14 years ago

There's also a complete blogg*r blog listing many cb download pages...and get this...there's Frickin' Adsense ads on the pages!!!!!!!

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Gaurav Duggal 14 years ago

Wow, I never realized this. Thanks so much for the heads up. I'm just about to launch a prodcut on CB, and the advise on this thread has helped a lot
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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

For those that cannot afford (yet) to buy a script - here is a free solution I've posted about:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ee-script.html

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Matt Peters

14 years ago

I just tried a free plugin called Drain Hole on my wordpress blog. Seems to work well.

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zapseo

14 years ago

If people who wanted to protect their products searched around on the Clickbank site as hard as crackers search CB Vendors sites' for the download page...

THERE IS SAMPLE CODE on the CB site that shows how to protect your download page... look under the "vendors" section. Freely available, you don't, I believe, even need to have a CB account.

Nevertheless...Sam's DLGuard is great. My primary client has 3 copies of it! (They are on a variety of servers and niches...)

Okay...returning you back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Live JoyFully!

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arsde

14 years ago

Can you use DLGuard to protect videos online? Because if they can download the videos then they can upload it to others. But if they view it online it should be no problem. So can I protect the product if I have it online?

I saw that you could do members site, can I have then 1 payment and then they get some login they need to use to see the content?

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Mya 14 years ago

I'm actually creating a product coming out in January and I was quite concerned about this.
I actually was more freaked about people buying and passing out the DL link.
You really can't stop this unless you want to go through all the headaches around security. For the most part I think people who are buying your product don't really know how to do those major keyword searches in google. That is the simple truth of the matter. Now the ones who do they are not going to buy your product anyway and will go to all lengths to get it from you, maybe buy it and ask for a refund. So honestly if this is stopping you from creating your product don't let it, because the majority of people who buy will buy and be content with what they have.

So lately I have been more concerned on getting the product out there and doing a few no follow scripts.

It is better to have your product out there than not to, because of fear from theft.
Keep working on getting your product made because in the end, that is your toughest hurdle.
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samstephens

14 years ago

Originally Posted by arsde

Can you use DLGuard to protect videos online? Because if they can download the videos then they can upload it to others. But if they view it online it should be no problem. So can I protect the product if I have it online?

I saw that you could do members site, can I have then 1 payment and then they get some login they need to use to see the content?

Hi Arsde,

Thanks for your interest in DLGuard!

Yes, you can set a DLGuard membership area to 1 payment, and then your customers will be able to login and view your videos streaming from your membership area.

There isn't a way to 100% protect video files, but this will certainly do a lot to help. It comes under the same theory as protecting PDF's - do as much as you can to protect them (without causing headaches for valid customers).

cheers
Sam

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theimdude

14 years ago

Originally Posted by samstephens

Hi Arsde,

Thanks for your interest in DLGuard!

Yes, you can set a DLGuard membership area to 1 payment, and then your customers will be able to login and view your videos streaming from your membership area.

There isn't a way to 100% protect video files, but this will certainly do a lot to help. It comes under the same theory as protecting PDF's - do as much as you can to protect them (without causing headaches for valid customers).

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Sam

Hi Sam. Do you offer affiliates to sell dlgaurd.

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samstephens 14 years ago

Originally Posted by theimdude

Hi Sam. Do you offer affiliates to sell dlgaurd.

Hi Imdude,

Yes, I've got a Clickbank affiliate program set up - thanks for your interest! PM me if you're interested in details!

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MarkH45

14 years ago

This is an easy fix... Use Digital Product Delivery - Sell Downloads PayPal, 2CheckOut, Clickbank and more! to deliver your product. (It's only $5 a month) works with clickbank, payapl, paydotcom, etc...

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butters

14 years ago

Err, sorry but how has this thread helped? I bet 1000's of people just tried this on google.

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williamrs

14 years ago

Yes, it really happens. But I can't understand how vendors allow it... The whole thing could be solved by a simple PHP script. Simply pay a programmer a couple bucks and get an authentication script. This way no one without an username and a password will be able to access the download page.