Copy Defender was designed from the ground-up to prevent automated copying (aka scraping) of your valuable website content.

Copy Defender is PHP script that can be installed on any *nix website and requires no database support giving a huge flexibility to the content management systems it can support (Wordpress, Joomla, PHPBB etc. etc.)

Copy Defender examines each incoming new IP requesting a page from your site and runs it through a series of triggers, each of these can allocate a score to that particular IP. Some of the triggers include:

• Time since last request
• Total requests
• Black/Whitelisted IP
• Known Search Engine IP
• Known Proxy IP
• IP from high-risk country

Each time the IP sets off a trigger it accumulates a score and when the IP’s total score reaches a threshold value it can either be redirected or challenged to prove that it actually is a human. If it’s proven to be a robot scraping your content Copy Defender will stop it in it’s tracks…

Share This

Well it’s been a long and sometimes bumpy road, but CopyDefender is finally going in to the final stages of Beta Testing and will be launched within the next few weeks!

We’ve added an installation and webhost checking system to ensure the installation is as quick and simple as possible and we will have a selection of videos covering every aspect of installing, configuring and using the system to help you get up and running with the CopyDefender active website content protection system with the minimum of fuss.

We are trying to make sure that even an internet newbie running their first website or blog can use CopyDefender without any worries.

There are also some neat new features on the log files to make the information gathered even more useful, including reverse IP lookup feature so you can verify whether a spider or bot is what it claims to be!

Share This