anyweb Posted September 28, 2009 Report post Posted September 28, 2009 hi all, unfortunately a website out there has ripped off (and without permission) pretty much ALL of the content (including the layout) of windows-noob.com and is using it on their 'forums' with no link back to here and is effectively claiming it as their content even though some of the 'guides' contain screenshots of windows-noob.* address's. One of the two people who carried this out was a young Saudi Arabian called 'Kane Bagwell' from the same site and his accomplice The_Last_Remnant. Because of this extreme lameness I am now left with the possibility that this will keep on happening so I'm pondering how to deal with it, do I protect all screenshots on the forum with a www.windows-noob.com logo on them or use some other form of protection ? I am open to ideas and suggestions so please give me your opinion on this cheers niall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted September 28, 2009 Report post Posted September 28, 2009 The way they act is indeed kinda lame.... Maybe you can disable right clicking on the site? But that will harm everyone.... So, I think, the best option is indeed to mark all the screenshots... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted September 28, 2009 Report post Posted September 28, 2009 thanks Peter, can you recommend any software that I could use to watermark all the images, they are contained in multiple folders on the server I just want to be able to point the software to the folder and let it update all images found I hate doing this, but I hate getting the site ripped off even more Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted September 28, 2009 Report post Posted September 28, 2009 They are indeed doing a good job off ripping the site.... I got no clue about what software would be a good fit... I did a search on Google and it found a lot. So enough choices, but still no clue what would be a good fit... Sorry Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmmayms Posted September 29, 2009 Report post Posted September 29, 2009 I think you should begin with changing the SQL Password and username used by the forum. The way they have copied the material is either by SQL inject or allot of copy n paste... What kind of server are you using for windows-noob? So we know if we should be looking for windows or linux software for protecting images (watermark). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted September 29, 2009 Report post Posted September 29, 2009 i think they did copy and paste, the SQL data itself would only give them the DATA and not the screenshots, but of course i could be wrong, there is nothing on the server to indicate a sql injection or other attack/hack the server hosting this is running centos/apache/mysql/php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted October 10, 2009 Report post Posted October 10, 2009 after some detailed log analysis I can see that they are using a webcopier program called httrack and an anonymous VPN service to hide their IP while copying so I will implement some content filtering to try and block webcopiers......... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacAgent Posted November 19, 2009 Report post Posted November 19, 2009 Hi anyweb, first of all I would like to thank you for your great work! I'm a fan of your SCCM instructions, which helped me a lot. Anyhow, when do you expect to reopen the SCOM Forums? McAgent Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted November 19, 2009 Report post Posted November 19, 2009 the SCOM guides will remain private for the time being. sorry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPC Posted November 19, 2009 Report post Posted November 19, 2009 Not very nice of those guy's. Like Peter says disabling the right click is no option. To watermark the images with the watermark feature of Photoshop could bve a solution. it's alot of work cause it coul'd not be batched. The watermark of photoshop could be used best i think cause will leave the image readable better then other watermark software. hi all, unfortunately a website out there has ripped off (and without permission) pretty much ALL of the content (including the layout) of windows-noob.com and is using it on their 'forums' with no link back to here and is effectively claiming it as their content even though some of the 'guides' contain screenshots of windows-noob.* address's. One of the two people who carried this out was a young Saudi Arabian called 'Kane Bagwell' from the same site and his accomplice The_Last_Remnant. Because of this extreme lameness I am now left with the possibility that this will keep on happening so I'm pondering how to deal with it, do I protect all screenshots on the forum with a www.windows-noob.com logo on them or use some other form of protection ? I am open to ideas and suggestions so please give me your opinion on this cheers niall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
