Stopping people from stealing your content ?

[WarDoGG]

I had a neat idea, i dont know how this would be implemented, cuz im not a coder..

but the VB gurus can have a shot at this !

Many of us, are sick of people stealing our links and posts from our forums and using it on theirs.

Suppose i have a site mysite.com

Suppose we have to post a download link... www.rapidshare.com/download111.rar

On the newthread template, a link converter would be present.. The user would paste the above link into the link converter and voila ! out comes the protected link.. (Using an AJAX system)

Suppose the protected link is : mysite.com/protector.php?linkid=11245

What happens in the background is, the link gets stored and mapped into the database and the user gets the protected link ( mysite.com/protector.php?linkid=11245 )

Now, when some 3rd person clicks this link mysite.com/protector.php?linkid=11245 , if the incoming hit is from the local site mysite.com the link is converted into the original link (which is mapped into the database) and the user is forwarded to the original link

If, the hit comes from an external site (meaning somebody has copied ur link and posted on their forums) then the link would not be converted.

EVEN BETTER !!! the link would be converted to your forum address : mysite.com


Now, hows my idea, if any of you godss think this is practically possible.. please reply to this thread