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How to steal a website... and how to prevent it
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Stan Bright
https://dev.to/saashub/how-to-steal-a-website-12p7
Why would someone do that
That's something I'm still trying to figure out. The only plausible suggestions are - (1) serve ads at some point. (2) a competitor who hired someone to hurt SaaSHub's presence. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I found out today that they are running the same scheme on at least 3 other domains :|
Informative. Thanks for sharing.
Love the honeypot idea. Took me a second to wrap my head around it, but it's brilliant.
You can always clone something manually
It's illegal either way.
A good way to prevent it, is to obfuscate your website code, here are a couple of tools that we use for that purpose: www.protegerhtml.com/en and www.protegerjavascript.com/en as well as www.protegerphp.com/en
Thanks for sharing this! If anyone wants to build their own website, use these tools:
https://www.nocodejournal.com/posts/the-best-landing-pages-using-nocode
How is t his relevant to the post/discussion?
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You can copyright code and HTML. In fact, any code or HTML you write is copyrighted; you don't even have to do anything for protection.
Violating copyright has serious consequences. To the tune of $150,000 per work that's infringed in statutory damages (i.e., you don't even need to prove you lost money). A lawyer could argue each page is its own work, putting the cloning of a site into the high millions of dollars.