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HarvestGoddess
06-25-2007, 07:45 PM
Im not sure if anyone can help me or if im in the right place i have a forum on proboards a person who has it in for us stole our shop including all the items we had collected over a period of time the were able to simply right click view source as a guest and copy the entire thing :mad:
They are now using our photobucket links the works !!!
Anyway ive tried everyone at proboards and am hoping there is a code to prevent them viewing the sourcecode which has all our headers and footers contained within :(
I hope this is ok if not i apolagise i just dont know what else to do and am really upset thanks so much :)
djr33
06-25-2007, 08:59 PM
Welcome to the internet.

Nothing you send can be completely protected.

There are some scripts that will make some things (saving an image, saving a video) somewhat harder, but anyone who really wants to steal your stuff can anyway, so the only real difference this makes is that it will stop your page from working properly for some visitors.
Additionally, the source code, especially, cannot be protected, since this IS your page. If you don't allow access, then the browser can't display the page.

If you're selling things, then don't actually put them on your site. Place low quality images or watermarked images, then release the full quality images only when they have paid, and in a secure way, like through email, actually sending a printout to them, etc. Or use a secured site with username/password, an access code, etc.

I know it's tough and no fun, but there's just not much you can do about it, especially now that they are already stolen.

Your only real option here is to pursue them through copyright law, which should work out for you, if it is worth it to spend the time/money to do that.

Good luck.
HarvestGoddess
06-25-2007, 11:06 PM
Aw thanks for that and the welcome its good to be here il certainly look into that :)
Adam...
06-27-2007, 04:23 PM
or you can use php which some browsers cant see in view source..
thetestingsite
06-27-2007, 04:30 PM
or you can use php which some browsers cant see in view source..

All php does is output whatever you want the PHP to output to the browser. Something like this:



<?php
echo '<html>
<body>
This is a test
</body>
</html>';


would produce this in the browser:



<html>
<body>
This is a test
</body>
</html>


The only thing the browser can't see is the Server side stuff in the PHP code. djr's post tells you everything about the source code cannot be protected.
Hope this helps.