Is there a way to prevent someone from doing a Site rip on a DNN site? I have a client that has proprietary information on his site and asks if DNN can prevent a site rip program from stealing his whole site. It would impact his entire business if so. (of course it would)

I think I am searching wrong on the internet because I have not seen much information on protecting your web site and if so it is form custom and not DNN.

Any help would be GREATLY appriciated!!

Thank you,
Dean

I've came across a site that supposedly encrypts the HTML web pages but as you stated, if an HTML web page is decrypted by the end browser then there is no way to stop it from being "ripped' the one i found are Pagelock (http://www.mmaus.com/pagelock.html) but it sounds like it is the same principle as what you are describing. Aside from encoding the whole webpage as a GIF with hotspots, i am unsure and that sounds like an undertaking in its own right.

Thanks!

Dean

A lot of clients worry about this, but there really is nothing you can do. So long as the information is visible, it can be copied. It's the way the internet and any publishing media, including books and papers work. Page protection tools only hinder unskilled people from making a quick selection to copy.

Don't publish information that you want to charge money for. Publish previews or snippets or degraded un-usable versions of the information instead and then offer the full product at a price. DNN helps in that you can make people register accounts and pay to subscribe to proprietary information.

Mandeep's modules won't help you, but I have to say that whilst his modules aren't very fancy, I have found his support to be very good and his subscription to be good value and useful to me... so far.

Rob