The easiest way to do so to keep people from actively seeking to remove it, but would probably not get any 'bored surfer' traffic' would be to just <span style='display:none'>...</span> - however, you then don't get that surfer traffic.
I suppose you could do something bizarre like making a very simple wp plugin trivially hide the links/text within a base64 string, which outputs the full footer with the html/div/etc closure, and if they remove that, it breaks the HTML. That'd stop quite a few of them, with the objective of if they want to remove it, it'll be wrong, so they use a different theme.
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Originally Posted by Jace
looking around I see ioncube might work pretty well, would that be a good solution?
and also, now that I think about this more, I might have to limit the links to non-hardcore, that way people actually use the them and the hardcore links don't scare them off
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Encoding a theme? Requiring that this be installed as well? I dunno. People will probably be a bit wary of any 'encoded' support tools for WP.
Regarding non-hardcore, I also can't say.. that's really up to you and what you want to allow for your specific themes/sponsorship.
Just a couple of ideas off the top of my head.