How to steal a website... and how to prevent it
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When “improving” is actually the wrong move
When “improving” is actually the wrong move
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
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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.