I just got off the phone with plagiarism and copyright pro, Jonathan Bailey of PlagiarismToday.com. He took about 30 minutes to chat with me about preventing and defending copyright infringements.
Jonathan reveals some neat resources that can come to your aid in this battle against content thieves. He also outlines a step-by-step approach to having your content removed from other sites, having pages banned in Google and/or having entire sites taken offline by their hosts due to copyright infringement.
As part of our interview about digital content, we began to discuss whether users prefer paper books or ebooks. Which would you rather have?
You aren’t helpless against content theft. Learn to protect and defend your content.
Hello,
I just listened to your very enlightening interview with Jonathan from Plagiarismtoday.com. Thank you so much as I’m trying to create an ebook and needed to know about how to protect it.
I’m wondering if since the interview whether either you or Jonathan became familiar with PiggyLock. I noticed Jonathan mentioned that he wasn’t familiar with any tech tools that were effective in preventing ebook plagiarism. However, this tool may have emerged since your interview.
Any insight you can provide would be helpful as I’m thinking of using PiggyLock. Thank you. Kay
Hi Kay,
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve never heard of Piggy Lock, but from a brief scroll through the sales copy, it looks to be just like all the others (Virtual Vault, etc.). There are major drawbacks to these types of software. (1) Customer has to read/use product while online. That’s not always possible or convenient. (2) It adds confusing steps to the order/delivery process that often frustrate customers causing them to just give up and ask for a refund. (3) You have to keep on purchasing the service at $x.xx per month or ALL your protected products suddenly become unprotected. (4) Products can only be used on one PC. Customers can’t transfer docs to their PDAs, etc. for reading at their leisure.
This kind of software is a good idea – and I’ve used similar products before myself – but the issues it causes stir up way more customer service/usability issues than it’s worth. I found, while using software like this, that I got almost double the amount of refund requests because of all the limitations the software caused.
Karon