good content protection?

does anyone have experience with copypatrol.com?

[FanOfCoding]

Hi,

I recently came across the site www.CopyPatrol.com
They watch your content for a small fee.
My question: has anyone used it before? would you pay for a service to watch your content?

on one hand I don't want to pay for it, but on the other hand I like the idea of getting monthly reports emailed to me about where my content appears.

i'm thinking about using the service for my articles. what do you all think? it seems to not cost much. does anyone here use it for their content?

[stapel]

It looks very much like this service checks the Internet for postings of printed content. I don't know how well suited it would be to web-based content.

For instance, their fees are five dollars per year per "article" (which I would guess would correspond to five dollars per year per content-rich web page), plus half a cent a word. So my small, educational, non-commercial site, with about 315 content-rich pages, would have an up-front fee of $1575, plus another $1400 to $1600 for the word-count fee.

I'm sorry, but I can run my pages through CopyScape's free service for much less than $250 or so a month. So this service wouldn't work for me.

Anyone else?

Eliz.

[hunderdown]

Wow, that's expensive. I agree, Copyscape is pretty useful--maybe I'm not worried enough, but I figure I can monitor possible copying by running the ten pages on my site I think are most likely to be copied through Copyscape every few months or so. So far, nothing's turned up--but if it did I'd do a more careful check. I have found copied content, but not through a service such as that, but because someone told me about it!

[JayCee]

You can do your own searches by finding the right unique phrases in your content and using Google, but i'm paying Copyccape $25 a month for weekly automatic scans - saves me time and hassle.