Site scrapers - How are these guys doing entire site rips?
 

More importantly, how do you stop it?

take your sites offline... :2 cents:




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dont allow video downloads, and stream all your video content using rtmp. This doesn't make it impossible, but at least slows them down to grabbing the videos in real time (meaning, 1hr video will take 1 hr to rip). You can also setup a script to watermark all images in random spots with their ip address and time.

Very carefully.
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For vids, use Adobe's AMF technology within your media player. Tough to get around that, and haven't bothered putting the time into figuring it out.

+1

or really easily depending on the site :)

Download managers?

They are well versed in the arts know as Black Ops

Right click of a mouse will do it.

What he said.

Probably http://www.httrack.com/ or similar, it might even have proxy support, can't recall.

Best way to scrape is with an object that has a solid edge.