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Preventing the Theft of Digital Content

by Michael Ayton
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Greetings fellow Warriors,

I want to hear about how you deal with digital content theft, for example if you have a plugin, theme, PDF or those types of things - how do you protect your asset?
#content #digital #preventing #theft
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Didn't we just do this a couple days ago?

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-products.html
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Ayton
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Didn't we just do this a couple days ago?

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-products.html
      Hey Bill,

      We did indeed - gave me the idea to start a thread asking specifically for peoples prevention methods. Thanks for the link though that will be useful for warriors reading this post who hadn't seen the other thread.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Ayton
      @Chris

      If microsoft can't even protect their software what chance do we have!
      The person who invents the protection for digital content is going to be very wealthy

      @Revolves

      That watermark on the videos sounds pretty effective, you could use your company logo as the watermark. I assume thats what you were talking about anyway.
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by Michael Ayton View Post

        The person who invents the protection for digital content is going to be very wealthy

        Two things:

        The black hatters would find a way to break it.

        Then the black hatters would share the information online.


        That happened with cell phones a few years ago. I don't remember all of the details, but I think it was the iPhone, and the phones were coded to make them exclusive to certain providers.

        Once the hack was discovered, it was shared world-wide in days.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    You can't, plain and simple. Hell, Microsoft can't even protect windows.

    -Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author Revolves
    A company used to sell videos (I don't remember the niche), and with each purchase, your videos would be watermarked with your name and stuff. This is to discourage you from sharing, since it'd be easy to locate the culprit by viewing the illegally distributed videos. However, you had to wait a few hours before you could access your purchase.

    The same logic is possible for PDF files, but they can be edited out by using a PDF editor. So it won't work all that great over there.

    In short, there are plenty of ways to circumvent security precautions. The only thing it does is create more problems for your genuine customers. Your resources are better spent in making better products for your genuine customers.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveSki
    I think this may be just what you are looking for.. .

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    It was a WSO at one time: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ml#post8127522
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Any security feature that you add to your website/PDF, there will always be those who are smart and will be able to steal your content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ayton
    Yeah it appears pretty tricky to stop theft completly, near impossible..
    but taking measures to make your digital content a little bit harder to steal seems to e worthwhile.

    thanks for you comments guys
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  • Profile picture of the author shadeofinfo
    Unfortunately I don't believe that there's nothing that can be done about it. Ebooks are horrible easy to copy, regardless if you put protection on it to not have them copy and paste it, there's still programs out there that can unlock it.

    It's frustrating.

    I'm starting to think, once again, physical products are the way to go but digital products are just so convenient.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Impossible.

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  • Profile picture of the author naidyphoon
    Dlguard is a good tool to use. Having said that, if people really want to get your hands on it, they'll find a way.
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    • Profile picture of the author ClickDale
      I hate to ECHO (Echo.....echo....) the same thing that everyone else has already said. Ultimately, you cannot truly protect your digital content. However, you can take some small steps to help make it a little bit more difficult.

      I believe e-junkie.com will deliver your ebook to your customer with some decent protection options. They give the customer a link to download the ebook. The link expires after a day or so. They also limit the buyer to 1 download of the ebook. This prevents buyers from blasting the link out onto forums to others to download it for free. And I might be wrong about this one, but I think they watermark the ebook with the customer's name on it. This would help to find the individual responsible for making unauthorized copies. Their service is $5 a month.

      As far a protecting video, you can sign up with viimeo.com (i believe that is how you spell it). They will host your videos and make it secure so that people cannot download it or embed the video elsewhere throughout the web. They charge an annual fee of around $199.

      Hope this helps.
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