I am not sure how you do it, but I remember reading somewhere that you can disable right click on your articles to stop them being plagiarised by copy and paste, do you think its a good idea? Or do you believe that 'they' are stealing them in a different way? another thing, maybe if when we publish our hubs, right at the top we should write something along the lines of, 'This article belongs to Nell Rose if it is found anywhere else it has been stolen? we can always get rid of that later when we have sorted it out, what do you think? thanks!
It might stop the odd innocent copying, but it will not stop theft like the recent one. They use a bot to steal Hubs as they are published.
Yes, you can add such a message - though I would put it at the end, not the beginning, so as not to annoy the reader. And we will never "get it sorted out". It's impossible to prevent article theft, you just have to be vigilant about fixing it when it happens.
The recent issue was far from the first time.
But, has anything such as this present one happened? Being scraped the second they're published? As long as I'm here its just been a few hubs here and there that have been copied.
You've only been here 6 months. It's happened several times, and I'm sure it will happen again.
Yup that's what I meant by "As long as I'm here"
Nell Rose, I have seen a couple of disclaimers like that, but it isn't clear where "here" is. If you do something like this, be sure to mention the subdomain,
Something like: "This article belongs to Nell Rose and was originally published at http://nellrose.hubpages.com. If it is found anywhere else it has been stolen."
There are other ways people could still steal your images and page, but the diabling of the right click would stop some. Anything to help would be beneficial.
@lobobrandon - http://hubpages.com/search/include%3Afo … s%2Bstolen
This type of thing happens quite frequently, HP is a very high profile site, so its a bit more of a target than some others. Its usually done via software or automation - and although it should be fought, most who create nothing but copied sites wont see much or any light in the search engines.
@nell
Its basically pointless to disable right click - I find it very annoying myself - I highlight terms and right click to "search in google" very frequently.
Right click disable is done via javascript - most people "advanced" enough to plan out content theft - can very easily get around that - its a one click operation in any modern browser.
Large scale theft is done via bots and software, they dont visit the page in a way where right click is necessary.
Perhaps you would foil the occasional ignorant thief, a new user who didn't know any better - but the annoyance to legit visitors probably outweighs that small chance
No this would not prevent anything. Keyboard shortcuts (such as crtl+C) will still be available for someone to use to copy text. The print screen button can be used to easily copy images as well.
Disabling the right click function makes it harder for someone to simply save an image to their hard drive, but there are many ways around it. For example, a program like SnagIt lets you take snap shots of all or part of the website, including single images, and then edit them.
by LindaSmith1 9 years ago
I decided to see how easy it was to prevent content from being copied. I did a quick search and found sites with codes to copy and paste onto your site. It took me 15 minutes to do one of my sites. Now neither my content or photos can be copied. I am not computer saavy, so...
by Joween 9 years ago
Hi everyone, I had this one suggestion to prevent stolen hubs, how about making hubs cannot be copied by restricting selection using javascript or any script? This is kind a simple script. Or give the authors the ability to add this script to their hubs?Or when someone is copying a hub, a script...
by Csanad 13 years ago
I have read that some bloggers disable their comments. This way other bloggers who want to discuss will have to write a separate article on that blogpost on their on blogs, so they have to link back to the original blog. This means more incomig links, hence higher SEPR, which in turn increases...
by Sandra Greaney 4 years ago
I would love to see a restriction which doesn't allow visitors the option of stealing the content or images here on Hubpages. If the option to highlight text or right click on images was disabled, could it stop or slow down the chance of content from being stolen on here.
by Stacie L 12 years ago
is it difficult for a website to disable right clicking?There are many IT people on here and wondered if they could offer some insight.it would solve so many problems here for many writers..
by marthamuldoon 11 years ago
Is it possible to disable the ability to copy photos from my hubs?I've noticed if I right click on a photo, I can copy or save any photo shown on a hub. I'm not crazy about the idea that anyone can take any of my photos (which I took myself). Is there a way to protect them? To disable this feature?
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