Does placing the copyscape banner on my site prevent content stealing?

by sam770

Posted: 13 years ago 10 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I saw that copyscape let site owners place the copyscape banner on their site
but does it really help?
I mean, how can it prevent content stealing? the thieve assumes that the site owner monitor the web for content stealing and will be afraid of that? is that the idea? did I miss something?

#banner #content #copyscape #placing #prevent #site #stealing

SamirSM 13 years ago

Are you kidding?

Most scrapers are bots!

They won't even "see" the banner!
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- sam770 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by indihow
  
  Are you kidding?
  
  Most scrapers are bots!
  
  They won't even "see" the banner!
  
  yea, thats exactly what i thought
  just find it strange that copyscape are trying to "sell" such idea to professional scrapers
  
  so, how *practically* a website owner can protect his content?
  
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- howinfo 13 years ago
  
  It could act as a deterrent and might eliminate small number of people stealing. I have noticed lot of sites have disabled copy and paste function, I don't know how effective that is either.
  
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  CDarklock 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by howinfo
  
  I have noticed lot of sites have disabled copy and paste function, I don't know how effective that is either.
  
  It's not. Scrapers don't copy and paste. People do.
  
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  sam770 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  It's not. Scrapers don't copy and paste. People do.
  
  I think that you are pretty much correct.
  But, how do YOU protect content stealing?
  
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  SamirSM 13 years ago
  
  You don't really need to bother unless the other site ranks above you.
  
  If it does, you can send a complaint to the site's hosting service provider.
  
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  CDarklock 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sam770
  
  But, how do YOU protect content stealing?
  
  You can't.
  
  See, here's the thing. If you put your stuff on the web, here's what happens.
  
  A user asks your server to read a particular article.
  
  The server looks up that article on the hard drive.
  
  And it sends a perfect copy of that article to the user.
  
  Now he's got a perfect copy of your article.
  
  You can't stop him from doing pretty much whatever he wants with it.
  
  So let's say he steals it and shoves it up on the web. Now I could get a bug up my butt and run over to throw DMCA notifications at him. If I'm lucky, someone involved in displaying this content on the web for the thief is afraid of the DMCA.
  
  But at the same time, I know I personally have a reasonably inexpensive setup where a DMCA notification goes directly to me no matter where you send it, and nobody else will do a damn thing. I personally am the only one who might give a crap about the DMCA if something's on my server.
  
  And I personally do care about the DMCA, so if anyone sent me a valid DMCA notification I'd take the stuff down. But I don't steal content, so nobody ever will.
  
  So the question is, what are the chances that the thief gives a crap? Pretty low. If he's at all serious about his thievery, he's pulled everyone else from the decision chain just like I have (I hate being told what I can and can't do on MY SERVER), and he wipes his arse with DMCA notifications.
  
  Thus, why bother? Why should I waste my time telling some worthless loser who can't even write his own articles that he's a thief? What, like he doesn't know? I don't even need to dignify his efforts with a response.
  
  And all that time I save by ignoring thieves can be spent on people like my customers, and my friends, and my family. You know... people who deserve my time.
  
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Michael Taylor 13 years ago

Also, a content thief is likely stealing huge quantities of text from all across the web. His efforts aren't going to really harm you in the long run.

By the time your material is on his server, he's already dumped dozens to hundreds of other docs on there too.

And by tomorrow, he's forgotten all about you, if he ever thought about you in the first place.

He's not a real threat or a real competitor. So maybe the article he horked gets ranked higher than your own original article. So write a new article that he won't have. Or do some back linking for your first article he stole and outrank him.

Just don't, don't, don't worry about content theft to the point where you freeze and do nothing because of a fear of getting ripped off. Just write three articles for every one that gets pinched.

You didn't plan on ending your writing career with just a single article...did you?
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Andyhenry 13 years ago

Look at Youtube....... They have very clear messages about not using material you didn't create or don't own, yet most of the stuff on Youtube is people publishing video they recorded from TV.

If people blatently ignore the rights of those huge companies you really think they give a damn about your rights over your content?
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redrabbit 13 years ago

That's the idea. There is nothing technical that it does apart from possibly scaring away content noobs.
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