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11-29-2011, 05:03 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Finding rips
seeing all these thread about who ripped who, how do you actually find these sites?
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11-29-2011, 06:17 PM #2Retired Moderator
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Copyscape is helpful.
Sometimes rippers will hotlink, and that's easy to spot through logs.
Searching for your files by file name will expose some.
Sometimes just searching for content strings will do the trick (though this is pretty much what copyscape does).
There are probably other ways, but those are the big ones.Studio1337___̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡̡.__Web Design
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11-29-2011, 06:18 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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My layouts all have some amusing tags in both CSS and JS and HTML that are very out of sight.
Like possibly one line of strangely unnecessary code that does nothing.
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11-29-2011, 08:06 PM #4Web Hosting Evangelist
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Yeah, back when I was designing for PHP-Nuke (cms) I noticed there were so many people ripping designs.
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12-01-2011, 07:22 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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thanks folks.
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12-01-2011, 07:51 PM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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12-01-2011, 09:25 PM #8
No one to blame but me, I don't drink alcohol.
Back on topic though.
Now and again I'd Google some text, the poor man's Copyscape. That and combing logs for image calls, and the occasional live chat that gets opened from the ripping site. We once talked someone out of continuing to be hosted with the one that copied, when they thought they'd reached their support. Rare, and priceless.Your one stop shop for decentralization
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12-03-2011, 02:17 PM #9Junior Guru
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12-05-2011, 08:14 AM #10Disabled
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Agreed. You can replace images if they're hotlinked, I need to get round to that one day.
Like it's already been said though, you can take a section of your text and run it through Google to find any coppiers.. Hell! You could even put your copyright text in your websites footer into Google and find people who have stolen your site. It sounds dumb but you would be surprised at the amount of people who don't bother changing the copyright notice!
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12-06-2011, 11:34 PM #14Web Template Master
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The best way to reduce this is target the people/sites that are offering the particular design. For this I recommend Google search and alerts.
I'd also recommend doing things that will potentially put people off ripping your site such as compressing HTML/CSS/javascript on your live version. It won't stop everyone but it will reduce it.
When I say compress I mean compress CSS to 1 line for example with a very scary warning underneath
Here's some tools:
HTML - http://www.digitalcoding.com/tools/compress-html.html
CSS - http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor
Javascript - http://jscompress.com/
^ It's not bullet proof but it will confuse a lot of people and speed up your site in the process.
Also you could use the complete URL for the biggest image on your site, every couple of months change the location on your site and replace the old one with a notice that the current site is using a stolen design.
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12-06-2011, 11:36 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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....which is exactly one click away from "decompression"
and completelyuseless
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12-06-2011, 11:39 PM #16Web Template Master
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Yes for those that have even a slight understanding of HTML. Keep in mind that MOST people that do this use automated tools and don't have any understand of HTML/CSS hence why you always find blatant obvious rips.
As I mentioned it's not bullet proof but it's definitely a good option considering the fact that it increases page speed anyway.Last edited by zomex; 12-06-2011 at 11:44 PM.
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