how to protect content from copying

Hello, i have some books i would like to publish, but i need to protect it from copy/paste by people, its copyrighted book, and i have authors permission, but i gotta protect it from being copied. can someone point me in the right direction?

 

I had same question and I was advised to make PDF, that protecting e-book is very hard and usually not worth money.

 

You can disable the right click of the mouse with javascript but.. people can work around this. I agree w/ sandrodz, PDF is hard to copy! They'd have to type everything out manually.

 

Could always put the text in an image too... pg1.png, pg2.png, etc etc..

 

A PDF isn't that hard to copy. They could just use a program like 'pdfedit' to modify the content they need to.

There's really no way of 'stopping people from copying'. The only thing you can do is put it out there and pray someone doesn't. Watermarks always help!

 

thanks a lot for all your responses, I made some right click mouse disable and text menu disable code that i hope it'll help a bit. Not sure how to convert .doc into .pdf though

 

yup, I was going to suggest this, too. Save each page as a JPG and PDF the JPG's.

However, someone could just print it out, use an OCR scanner and generate a Word document. Just like everything, it's able to be copied one way or another.

 

thats exactly what i did for my lecturer material

 

thats copying, what about illegal distribution of pdfs? How can we fight illegal resellers?

 

javascript is not a solution for this. In Firefox with the web developer toolbaar you can simply disable > disable javascript

 

There is no foolproof way ( "I have tested on actual fools" ) to keep everyone from copying your content. If determined enough just about anyone can, and most likely it will be copied by someone. You can make it more difficult though.

 

make a exe file with the content, that would be difficult to copy.

 

use FlashPaper 2 its beter the pdf

 

carve it into a stone tablet

 

thats a good suggestion, thx for massive contribution

 

Well, you could convert your content in another format, similar to a PDF format.Then also try to use a password protection right which will make the user difficult in accessing the content directly.

 

That actually is as good a suggestion as any of the others. If you publish to the web, it can be copied.

I think you'd be amazed at how few people care enough about your content to bother copying, and at how little, if any, negative impact those that do will have.

The content producers, artists, musicians, writers and even their publishers have found making stuff free on the web increases sales for them across the board, and even for the material that's free on the web. I can attest to having bought dead tree editions of at least three books (in the US$50–80 range) that I already possessed for free on my HDD. I likely would not have known about them nor have bought them were they not freely available for the downloading.

cheers,

gary

 

if you don't like it to be copied then control your visitors. password protect them to name a few.

 

If people want something they will take it, trying to protect it is just alot of work.

The best ways to stop the copy/paste theives is also an SEO killer so I don't know if that is important for you atall.

 

I know this, and everyone else does... we are in internet business for a long time already, but I hate hearing all the same "wisdom" all over again. Its not about ability to copy, if you don't use any protection anyone will copy but if you use protection that will decrease scope of people who will - and some will be lazy to undergo tiring procedures to crack pdf, or try to scan paper. So protecting makes sense as it will decrease the risk of theft.