Soldato
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Pron TBH.
Getting sick of pirates!
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Pron TBH.
When I had a few websites, I had someone copy my site, but what was worst was they were hotlinking the images from my servers! So I made a copy of the images (So it would look the same on my site) and replaced all of theirs with different ones 
I've never seen such a mess in my life 
I've never seen such a mess in my life 
The site I was talking about I had only set up for about just less than a week - so I wasnt too worried about SEO just yet
What about html/javascript obsfuscation tools?
Do they mess up SEO?
It would at least make things more difficult if you ran a script to remove white spaces/formatting and maybe rename the placeholders to be less helpful in your released code.
Do they mess up SEO?
It would at least make things more difficult if you ran a script to remove white spaces/formatting and maybe rename the placeholders to be less helpful in your released code.
No such thing. The most obfuscation you can do is remove line breaks and unnecessary spaces, or in JS rename variables and function names.
OP: Why not just see the pirating a compliment? You're not losing money, you're not losing time, but out of 1000s of sites, yours was worth copying.
haha, no, its just the html/css and javascript (and flash in the case of the Proline rip) Obviously they cant copy any of the php
If it was a personal site, or someone just experimenting, then I'd agree. What really annoys me is both of these have been ripped by other web agencies and re-sold to their clients.
We're only a small agency, but we work really hard on producing outstanding work - its a bit gutting when someone nicks it and puts it on the web as their own.
The only thing I can think of doing is populating the page using javascript and interacting with the DOM. This should stop the simple method of 'right click, copy paste'.
You can also wrap each page (be it javascript, css, html etc..) in a php wrapper (for instance) which only returns true if the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']is the one which is calling the selected file. That way you can't easily view the file they want to rip off.
Of course there are ways round all of these. The simplest way would be to send a polite email telling them to stop it, or you'll complain to their host...
You can also wrap each page (be it javascript, css, html etc..) in a php wrapper (for instance) which only returns true if the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']is the one which is calling the selected file. That way you can't easily view the file they want to rip off.
Of course there are ways round all of these. The simplest way would be to send a polite email telling them to stop it, or you'll complain to their host...
True, but the people who bought the site from the pirate resellers will probably never have contracted you to make one anyway, so again - you as an agency haven't lost anything.
Again, take it as the height of compliments!
