How do you protect content from being copied?

[CuriosityKilledTheCat]

I noticed in the samples of articles that content can be easily copy/pasted, without the user ever having to purchase it. Does not that defeat the purpose of selling it? Even if only a portion of articles are posted, maybe that's all someone needs? How do you prevent this from happening, in all fairness to the authors?

[constant-content]

There is no way to stop it but if it happens we can contact the website and either demand payment or get the website banned from google. Constant Content has a pretty good track record when it comes to that. People know better, but it can still happen.

Another reason it doesn't happen often is we don't index articles in search engines. So people simply can't find the content unless they know about CC.

[telyni]

Actually, at least two of the front-page articles can be found by searching for their titles on Google. I think one effect that helps is that the front page contents change fairly quickly, but those two (one of which happens to be mine) I think have been there for a few days. It does take a couple days to be added to the search engines, so if the front-page contents don't change often enough, then they can be found. I think it's likely that the rest of the articles on the site can't be found though.

~Reiko

[darcylogan]

You have to realize that someone who is that cheap to do something like that, probably wouldn't even come here in the first place.

Also, it would be unlikely that they would only do it once. All you need to do is do an exact phrase search for content on any browser and it would immediately pull up that site.

If they take the content and rewrite it, well I'm afraid that there is virtually no way that you can recognize it as yours. With the millions and millions of sites out there, there is very little "original" content except for personal stories.

Allow me to plagiarize myself to illustrate this fact:
The American Wirehair cat is extremely rare-only twenty-two were registered with the Cat Fancier's association in 2003. Yet, when I type in “American Wirehair Cat” into Google, it gives me 220,000 pages to choose from. That means there are about 100,000 pages for each cat!

Enough said,
Darcy

[Tom LaPointe]

Seems to me that there is even less control once it leaves here...purchased or otherwise. It can be plagiarized (I admit it...i had to look up spelling - LOL) from the BUYER.