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Originally Posted by thonglife
The problem is two-fold. The people use the stolen passwords on the sites then rip them to rapidshare/torrents.
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Well one possibility is to identify the leading site ripping software. Then add a layer of obsufucation on your site that effectively breaks the ripper. Obviously an <a href> tag is going to get grabbed real fast, but javascript layers between your pages and downloads are notoriously difficult to automatically rip.
The goal being to require a person to manually rip your site file by file. That would slow the problem, but then again, it only takes 1 person to rip a site to get it on the free file systems.
Can you make it even more painful for them though? E.G. would you lose users if you required people to view some of the photos via a flash plug-in or something? If they had flash installed, the user experience should be exactly the same as before. However with the plugin, you can drop in some basic encryption and completely prevent the standard right click save-as method for saving photos.
Just some thoughts, the kneejerk reaction is to say "DRM everything" but being a realist, that only works for a minority of people. Are there some other tricks to be applied to protect your content that are transparent to legitimate users, and a strong deterrent against site rippers.