Business Idea: Protect Your Content Service ?

Yes it is a very helpful service and I believe some of the warriors have made some money by offering this service to product/wso owner. It is also covered by a WSO =)

A decent service provider for this kind of service is really much appreciated. Even though some of us can make it manually but for me it is very time consuming.

Good luck!

I guess it would depend on the ROI. For WSO's that are $5 or $10, then the service would have to be pretty inexpensive to justify using it. For more expensive products, it would probably be worth it....

A potential issue is that most people who are downloading the stuff for free aren't going to pay for it anyways, so stopping them from downloading it doesn't really provide any benefits. I would not likely pay for this type of service unless it would actually boost my bottom line.

Retail stores have all sorts of protective layers in place to stop people from shoplifting but it still happens (a lot). Plus, those people have to actually go to the store and risk getting caught. With a digital product, there are definitely not as many layers of protection - so I'm not sure how this type of service could produce meaningful results.

All they would have to change the file name (download sites) or thread name (on sharing forums) to something else and it becomes very difficult find out that it is being shared.

Even the movie industry can't stop it and they are spending millions of dollars trying to track what movies are being shared and where they are shared at.

In theory it is a great idea, but I don't know if there is a practical solution as of yet.

I definitely think its a viable option for a business model, but the ugly truth is that there will always be people ripping off products they shouldn't.

Scammers like to find a way- hence why movies, computer games, and information products get ripped daily.

It's one of the main reasons that some huge companies supported SOPA- they were hoping it would help prevent stealing (although I think it'd be more harmful than helpful).

It's a great idea. There was a guy around last year who posted a dmca takedown notice service in the Warrior's For Hire section. Don't know if he's still around but I thought the idea was great. I haven't done any serious research on it so there might be hundreds of these types of things out there.

It's not hard to to. You could get some simple boilerplate text and just plug in the particulars of your client and contact hosting companies with it. You'd have to research Who is info to find the host and then just deliver the notice by email.

Maybe you could offer a lifetime of unlimited services for a fee and smaller packages all the way down to single notices. I might use such a service if it were priced right.

It's sound good. I have an idea and knowledge how we can help to protect any kind of wordpress plug-ins and php based scripts. But as I know IM is not about technology, is about money. To develop protection service with low prices will takes around 5-6 months and I don't want to spend my time on something that is not valuable in IM.

Developers, what do you think about idea of protection service with possibility to protect any Wordpress plugin or any php based script?

Funnily enough, I posted a WSO about an hour ago offering fully managed web hosting with full backups (to protect against hackers) and protecting downloadable content (via several different methods). It hasn't been approved yet, but when it has, I think i'll post the link here. (Of course if you buy the yet-to-be-approved WSO, we'll help you move everything from your previous hosting if required )

As a product owner, I'm not sure if I would spend my money on this service. It would all depend on the pricing and how much I actually save from this. There will ALWAYS be bootleg and there will always be people ripping your content off.

those who don't want to buy a product will always find another way, or something else that will work for them. non buyers will remain non buyers regardless of content protection services in my opinion.

A solution exists already: DMCASender.com

The problem with just sending DMCAs is that if there's a hole in your website that means anyone can get to the download page without paying, people can just link to that.
Also, people could encrypt the download links they post to the 'black-hat' forum in some way, I know this has been done at least once.

So, no one It seems that pdf files are more important than expensive php scripts and wordpress plugins. Ok, is all about IM

Good idea, but let me add some food for thought ...

Register your WSO with the US copyright office. Gheesh, it costs less than it did to become a War Room member and submit your WSO.

Now you have power. Now you could be entitled to statutory damages - probably a lot more than what you likely will make from your WSO.

W+ can track downloads. Other services offer even better possible tagging of your product so you can track down who uploaded it to a black hat site.

If you do not register a DMCA notice may be just a yawner. If you do register everyone had better act promptly upon your notices.

Now - a service that helps someone file their copyright, assists in being able to track downloads, searches for violations, and gets a portion of any settlement or damages - that can be a business model.

I have written about this before. Some WSOs have more potential earning power through their intellectual property rights than they do in straight sales.

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All you guys point out some important issues about copyright infringement. Thanks to all of you.