The article title itself gives you the first glimpse that what actually I am going to talk about. Is it just like a regular theft or more than that? It happens very often that you found people over the internet using your work i.e. your content, your images, your videos or more even your whole of website as it is.

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Using the work sounds fine at least till the time if one give proper credits back, but in mostly (or better maximum 7 in 10 cases), people never put back the proper credits back to you. In short they just simply reproduce your work for their own use. This is what it called to be as stealing. Isn’t a sound hard to be heard that someone steal your work via internet?

Now what if they steal of say if someone going to steal your work? Do there are ways by which you can protect your work – your digital property – from these thieves who just don’t care and simply without taking permission from you steal your work all at once. With writing this article, the main purpose for me to discuss various means by which one can save the digital work. The ways are simple and even result oriented.

Let’s begin with discussing the various things on your website that can be theft out.

Content: The first variant without which your website can’t describe anything. Stealing the content is the simplest way as all one have to do is highlight the content, and then just click CTRL+C and your content is copied. Once copied, one can place it anywhere.

Image: The theft of images is the most common theft. With no security measures taken into consideration, the best way to just right click on the image and click on SAVE AS, and your image is gone i.e. stolen. While another method is to “hotlinking” the images i.e. when a person uses the original link of other website on its own to use someone else’s images.

Videos: Another possible stolen variant is videos. It’s quite an easy task to steal someone’s videos. For doing so, all require is right click on videos (this works with many videos) and one can grab the content simply. In case if you can’t, then one can use the extensions which are easily available for Chrome and Firefox that lets one to download videos.

Downloads: The method not come as direct way of stealing, but say if someone is looking on your server’s directory structure, then it’s hardly a matter of bit of time to find all your digital downloads. Also, one can share you download link or download package directly or on black hat websites.

iFrame: The process is as simple as copying the whole of video with the help of iFrame, but in this one is actually iFraming whole of your website. This means that the whole of website content is showing under the iFrame without giving the visitors back to the original website in return.

What Can Be Done Now To Protect?

You really not want to think that something like the above mentioned happened to your website, but it does happen. The majority of such compromises happen sometimes not only to steal your website but also to use your bandwidth. In order to help you out in avoiding such a massacre, here are our top selected plugins which will help you and your site protected:

WP Content Copy Protection

WP Content Copy Protection

WP Content Copy Protection is a simple plugin which uses multiple techniques in copy-protecting your blog content. The plugin will disable the common copy methods, such as right clicks, image dragging and keyboard copy shortcuts.

Features:

  • iFrame Protection
  • Disables right click function on mouse
  • Disables image drag and drop function
  • Disables ‘Hold to Copy’ function on most mobile devices
  • Displays a client-side error message when Javascript is disabled
  • Disables combo keyboard command (CTRL A, C, X, U, P) copy/paste/print/view source
  • Automatically removes the image link URL and defaults the upload settings to ‘none’

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Transparent Image Watermark

The plugin will allows you to automatically add a PNG watermark images with transparency to all images as they are uploaded to the WordPress Media Library. The plugin also supports simple text watermarks with adjustable color, size and transparency.

Features:

  • Manually Apply Watermarks to Images Previously Uploaded
  • Fully Adjustable Image Watermark Position
  • Fully Adjustable Text Watermark Position
  • Adjustable JPEG Image Output Quality
  • Highest Quality Watermarks using Image Re-sampling rather than Re-sizing
  • Lifetime Priority Support and Update License

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No Right Click Images Plugin

The plugin uses JavaScript to change the right click action on IMG tags to disable context menu. It disables the context menu on images only so other right click actions, such as links, should work normally. The plugin will find many images generated in scripts or pasted into posts and comments, which similar plugins will not find.

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Bulk Watermark

Bulk Watermark

The plugin allows you to watermark your previously uploaded images using a PNG image file with transparency as well as text signature. You can set your watermarks to always be a specific percentage of the target image and will let you add the watermarks to ALL of the images in your WordPress uploads directory.

Features:

  • Fully Adjustable Text and Image Watermark Positions
  • Adjustable JPEG Image Output Quality
  • Highest Quality Watermarks using Image Re-sampling rather than Re-sizing
  • Lifetime Priority Support and Update License

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Hotlink2Watermark

The plugin allows you to display a watermark within each images being “hotlinked” from your website. A hotlinked image is an image hosted on your website but displayed on another website by an unscrupulous webmaster.

Features:

  • Add a watermark to all hotlinked image from your blog, on the fly!
  • All generated pictures are buffered into a directory for optimised use
  • Choice of watermark: can be a text or a picture
  • .htaccess update if needed
  • Can save all the referers (website which steal your bandwidh) on a csv file
  • Create/delete the buffer directory on install/uninstall of the plugin, for non-wasted disk space
  • You can choose between 4 fonts for the watermark, and select text and (optional) shadow colors

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CopyRightPro

CopyRightPro is a free version of Wp-Copyrightpro plug-in that prevents the copying of texts and images from your blog, if you install this plug-in, your content of WordPress will be protected.

Features:

  • Disable selection of text
  • Disable right click on your WordPress
  • Protects from iframes Only in wp-copyrightpro Version
  • Protects from drag and drop images Only in wp-copyrightpro Version
  • WP-CopyRightPro doesn’t have problems with search engines

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