As an Independent San Jose real estate Broker I own and manage three sites on the Internet. The Internet is known by me to be the Land of Oz and Thieves.
I write and publish my own content, pages, posts, graphics, photos, video, etc., on my San Jose Homes for Sale and San Jose Probate Real Estate Agent site.
This post is inspired by Mimi Foster who recently wrote several posts about thieves stealing her content and using it as their own. These thieves literally copy and pasted Mimi's entire post, including the graphics, and published it as their own. The most recent thief created a video using all of Mimi's content on her post about the Seller 10 Commandments.
The question we must ask our self is:
Do I value my content?
My response is: Heck YES!
As I was discussing with Mimi the other day, it is not only the time it takes to write great content, the content contains our many years of experience and knowledge as well as our own unique creativity.
We write with our personality. When some steals our content, it feels like identity theft and kidnapping of our personality. It is a violation on so many levels. Plagiarism is more than a dirty word. Plagiarism is theft. Plagiarism is a violation of copyright laws.
We see a many violations in the ActiveRain community. That is not what this post is about. Violations in the AR community should be reported.
How to Prevent Thieves from Steeling Content on our WordPress Site
The way I have found is Digiprove. This post will simply highlight what I find to be the crown jewels of the software. The graphic below is a screen shot of the settings page on my San Jose website. The settings I've chosen is to prevent right clicking and copying content. As you can see on the image below, I've selected "log IP address" and "send me an email".
Testing the system, I right clicked on my home page and the message box appears. All of my attempts were registered and logged. I covered my IP address in screen shot. The right clicks are logged in the event log.
When anyone right clicks on a page or a post, a message box pops up with my custom message: "Right clicking is disabled; log files are maintained; we reserve the right to puruse content theft" as shown in the graphic below.
On every page and post appears a customizable message as shown in the graphic below.
When "Copyright secured by Digiprove Copyright 2016 Kathleen Daniels" is clicked on it directs to Digiprove Content Certificate.
When "All Rights Reserved" is clicked on the message below appears. This message changes based upon the license type we select to use.
For a small fee, we can protect up to 10 WordPress sites. Check out their pricing here. I feel the low cost of the Digiprove subscription is well worth helping to protect my content.
Is the solution perfect? I think we all know the answer to that. Nothing is perfect in the Land of Oz and the Internet. The content could be printed and retyped. Even then, we have digital proof that we wrote, published and own the content. Digiprove removes the "easy to steel" element from Internet thieves.
I personally doubt the lazy thieves would do the work required to actually reproduce the content. If they had it in them, they would not be steeling our work in the first place.
I'm still paying around with the many ways to customize various features like changing the colors to match my sites.
If you value your content like Mimi Foster and I value our content then you might just want to check out Digiprove. You can try it for free.
A special thank you to Ciara and Cian at Digiprove for all of your help and great customer service!
DISCLAIMER: I am not an affiliate nor am I compensated in any way for promoting this product.
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