Simple Solution Blocks Copying
If you did try to copy content from this page, you'll have seen a popup telling you that the content is protected by copyright law and may not be copied.
Most people who copy content from websites do not actually realise that it is illegal.
That's because there are now so many sites that allow - or even encourage - people to copy their content.
Most article directories have always allowed copying of articles from the site.
Many social sites and wiki sites (including Wikipedia) allow copying of the content, because the content does not belong to the site, but is shared content from individuals.
Some sites, such as YouTube and Yahoo Answers even provide special "APIs" to make it even easier to copy content from the site.
So a lot of people now copy content from any website they like, without ever even considering that it might be illegal.
That's why a simple message telling them that it is illegal is generally all it takes to stop people copying your content.
But Web Copy Guard does also block the copy process, so nothing actually gets copied onto the Windows Clipboard.
Boosts Traffic Automatically
As well as protecting your content from being copied onto other websites, Web Copy Guard has a secondary benefit.
Tests have shown that a significant percentage of visitors who like your content will copy content to the Windows Clipboard and then send the content to their friends in an email.
This process is not actually harmful to your website in any way.
But it does lose you potential traffic.
If the visitor sent their friends a link to your website instead, you would benefit from additional traffic when the friends visited your website.
With Web Copy Guard, visitors are prevented from copying your content - and the popup asks the visitor to share your sites web address instead.
This means you can get extra traffic automatically.
Protect Against Source Code Copying
Most people who want to copy your content will just copy it directly from the page.
But some people will instead view the source code of the page and then copy the content.
It's not possible to actually prevent people viewing the source code of a web page, so you cannot actually block them from copying content in this way.
But you can include a prominent message in the source code to make sure that anyone viewing the source code knows that it is illegal to copy the content.
Web Copy Guard can optionally add such a message to the source code of your page automatically.
The message is in the form of an HTML comment, so will not be visible when viewing the page in a web browser (it is only visible when viewing the source code of the page).
The message should also be ignored by all search engines (which should just skip over HTML comments).
If you want to see this message, just view the source code of this page (just right click anywhere on the page and then select "View source").
You'll see a prominent message in the source indicating that the content is copyrighted and must not be copied.
This provides a simple solution that should deter people from copying your content.
Protect Noscript Browsers
Almost all Internet users have "Javascript" enabled in their browsers.
Javascript is enabled as standard in all browsers. Only advanced users even know what Javascript is, so most people would never even consider disabling it.
A lot of websites, including major sites like YouTube don't work at all if Javascript is not enabled.
But a very small percentage of people may disable Javascript in their browsers.
The Web Copy Guard code that blocks copying relies on Javascript.
So if Javascript is disabled in a visitor's browser, the feature will not work.
To provide some protection in this case, Web Copy Guard can (optionally) add a bright red message at the bottom of the web page, telling visitors that all content is copyrighted and must not be copied.
This message only appears when the browser has Javascript disabled, so few (if any) of your visitors will ever see the message.
But it provides valuable protection for those few visitors that have disabled Javascript.
Easily Protect Your Websites
You can easily protect any ordinary websites that consist of HTML pages (pages with file names ending in .htm or .html).
Use the special tool shown below to create your script:
You can set the message shown in the popup when a visitor tries to copy your content.
You can also select whether to include the source code protection and the noscript protection.
Click the Create button and the tool will instantly create the script
Upload the script to your web host.
All the pages on your website will then be protected automatically, including the copy protection, optional source code protection and optional noscript protection.
It really is that simple. You don't even need to modify your web pages.
Use On All Your Websites At No Extra Cost
The software is licensed for use on an unlimited number of websites, so you can use it on every website you own, without paying any extra.