Lets say I want to block a company from entering my website whats the way to do so. Just curious. I heard of something from the Internet Privacy Act but its bogus.
What do you mean by block and company? Are you trying to block all people that work at the company from viewing the site? Are you trying to block a crawler the company uses to block the site? There are several ways depending on what control you have over the server you are hosted on. However, most methods can be easily overcome by anybody with reasonable knowledge of how the web works. For example, you can block sepcific IP addresses from being served pages. The simple way around this is the person simply uses a proxy to view the site or their home computer. If you are trying to block an automated bot from scraping data you can convert all text to on-the-fly images, use captcha, implement clickthrough maximum rates. Just putting something in a ToS or privacy policy only works for those people that are scrupulous in the first place. Furthermore, people in other countries may not be bound by your ToS. Anyway, those are general concepts. Without more info, it would be hard to determine what the best method for you to use would be. Are you trying to protect data from pirates or are you a pirate trying to hide stolen content from those you stole it from?
My friend wants to make a private server forum for games like maplestory, world of warcraft, and runescape and since these companies that own these games like to shutdown these websites he was wondering if their was any way of blocking them(not viewing the content of the site and such)
Realistically there is no sure-fire method of doing what he wants. They would most likely find the site through the search engines anyway. If they were blocked from within the company then they would just need to use a proxy to get around that, plus you would need to know what all the public IP addresses these companies used were. That's just some of the logistical issues. Furthermore, taking express action to block employees of those companies would likely to be seen as evidence that the site was being used for illegal activities in court. So small infractions suddenly become serious infractions as the attempt to keep companies out would seem like deliberate action to avoid prosecution. All in all, I would say it is not worth the effort to try to keep them out.
sounds like he is a pirate trying to hide stolen content from those you stole it from? then again, since when has this stopped anyone from running a warez site? heck they are even advertised on DP....openly..."come post on my warez forum"....i could clearly see a site like this getting many DMCA's...but then again, as long as the warez are not actually held on the server, then there is nothing they can do...
Even linking to warez can get you sued for contributory infringement if the site is located in the US.
You can't block them. They could just use a proxy and visit it elsewhere, or look it up on many of the caching sites, or have someone else look at it for them. The only way to stop it is to make it members only & save the sign up information for people you trust Forums like how he's planning won't work. And you shouldn't be using private servers anyways... support the developers who worked on those games. They're the biggest gamble in the gaming industry for development budgets