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What makes you think it's something so sophisticated as a robot? It's probably someone with a browser cutting and pasting your copy. CSS and HTML entities won't help you there.

Use Server-Side Includes to #include virtual a perl script that will log visits to the page. Log the frequency, IP address (for comparing net-blocks), and the User-Agent. Also, include in a visual text footer and a comment in the source of each page a disclaimer on how "all copyright violators will be prosecuted" and other relevant legal-ese.

If your client base is a select few, use authentication to prevent the general populace from viewing the content.

Post a follow up if this doesn't cover what you want.

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

In reply to Re: (nrd) Mangling HTML to protect content, and finding stolen HTML content by newrisedesigns
in thread Mangling HTML to protect content, and finding stolen HTML content by nop

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