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Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help!
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:02 am
by Imriqwe
Hey
I am building some sort of a website.
In this website, I have a page which is supposed to display designed content - various text fonts, different font sizes etc.
The difficult part is that I want to make the displayed content so that users
will not be able to copy and paste it.
How can I do it?
I know that if the content will be written in the page source code, than it will be copyable, maybe not directly through the Browser,
but through PHP curl scripts etc, so that is not an option.
I thought maybe I could use Ajax somehow so that content will not be accessable to the users.
Flash file could solve it, but that is not a solution, because I don't know how to work with Flash.
If you can help me,
I will be really happy.
Thanks,
Imri.
Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:48 am
by josh
Why? The answer to your question is don't upload it. You pointed out yourself that http is not an option. Both flash & ajax are http based. It will be the same for any other protocol (https, etc.) The only way to prevent copy & paste is burn your writings before they're published. I can copy & paste out of a news paper, lol. scissors & glue, old school.
Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:13 am
by mellowman
The answer is to to give the user a taste or an example of your work instead of allowing the content to be completely stolen. No one will want to steal a sample of the work because that is pointless.

Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:44 am
by Imriqwe
josh wrote:Why? The answer to your question is don't upload it. You pointed out yourself that http is not an option. Both flash & ajax are http based. It will be the same for any other protocol (https, etc.) The only way to prevent copy & paste is burn your writings before they're published. I can copy & paste out of a news paper, lol. scissors & glue, old school.
But that is not what I am asking.
I don't mind if users print the content,
but I just don't want them to be able to copy all of it with like they copy from Wikipedia, for instance.
For example, If I would use a Flash file, users will have no access to copy the text which lies inside it. (Am I wrong?)
It is embedded as an object, not as text-lines.
Do you understand?
Is there a solution to such a thing?
Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:40 am
by Neilos
I don't think that there is a solution however there are many work arounds, it just depends on how much you can live with.
For example;
- Load it as an image. (probably the easiest, you can dynamically generate these too)
- Embed it in a Java or Flash file
- I've seen ppl able to remove the copy option from right click (used on images, don't know how it works)
- Only put a sample, as was said before
- Live with it
What makes you think people will want to copy it anyway? lol
Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:50 pm
by josh
Imriqwe wrote:For example, If I would use a Flash file, users will have no access to copy the text which lies inside it. (Am I wrong?)
josh wrote:You pointed out yourself that http is not an option. Both flash & ajax are http based.
No matter what the technology, the text is moving over a network. I can copy it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_analyzer
Re: Content which users will not be able to copy - Need Help
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:01 am
by Peter Kelly
Anything you put on the internet is able to be copied weather thats
Through simply copy and paste.
looking at the source doing it that way.
if you create it as a image the image can be saved and downloaded.
someone screen shots it.
using curl or something else.
The only way you could limit is to not upload it or just show a snippet then make them subscribe or something to get all of it?