Pocket by Firefox

Browser based social media sharing

[keyplyr]

Firefox's latest update adds a new free feature called Pocket. This is a social media type app that saves web pages, articles, images, photos, videos & other media to a unique Amazon cloud account requiring your Firefox account (password/username) where it then may be shared with others with no need for these other user to actually visit the actually webpage.

Host: Amazon AWS 54.210.0.0 - 54.211.255.255 (54.210.0.0/15)
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
UA: HTTP_Request2/2.2.0 (http://pear.php.net/package/http_request2) PHP/5.3.29

Note: Since AWS cloud hosting is dynamic, the host IP address may vary to other AWS ranges

[aristotle]

There's no way to stop manual copying, at least if the other person has even a little computer skill. But you can take a couple of simple measures:

1. Use the canonical tag to claim your page as the original. Not foolproof, since it can be removed from the source code, but this usually isn't done.

2. Include hard links to other pages on your site. Of course these can be removed, but most scrapers don't do so.

Occasionally someone who copies one of my articles even gives my site credit as the original source, but this is rare.

At any rate, as far as I know, Google and Bing have always been able to identify my site as the original source, no matter how many times an article is scraped, so my rankings and traffic have never been affected.

[keyplyr]

There's no way to stop manual copying,

While I do offer free downloads & tools, a significant part of my main site is excerpted pages, charts & articles from my books (hard copies, eBooks & ROMs.) The goal is to sell books. So when the user copies my work without paying, it is bad for business.

I once wrote a little JS used to disable right-click and cut'n paste. Stopped manual copying pretty well for a few years since most of my articles are too lengthy to copy down with a pencil. Thieves are lazy (or else they wouldn't be thieves.)

Then I added more user interactivity and needed the browser's focus back, so I just disabled the various "save page" methods since they all (major browsers) use either a unique request UA or add a UA attribute that can be blocked. I also serve the user a mail-in form to buy my books whenever they try to print some of the pages.

I've had to change my tactics a bit after going mobile however.