How To Use Rapidshare Ebook Storage For Protection
How To Use Rapidshare Ebook Storage For Protection
Now I have just watched a YouTube video that describes how to get ebooks that are currently being sold on the internet without having to pay for them. If you are currently selling ebooks online then this should alarm you. .It is not rocket science and this sort of thievery happens all the time on the internet. I could show you a number of different ways to do this but that would be wrong! This article will focus on how to protect you as an ebook owner/author from this sort of theft using a couple of techniques. The first one is the use of Rapidshare for ebook storage for a little protection.Why do you need to protect your intellectual property from theft and redistribution? Money of course! Most of us are trying to make a buck or two by selling our ebooks. If you have something worth selling and someone else is giving it away that affects your bottom line and you have to work that much harder. That is why the entertainment industry is up in arms over file sharing. They are losing money through unlicensed and uncompensated distribution.You want all the copies of your ebooks to be sold and distributed from your site and each copy paid for with the proceeds going to you! Now back to the real world. The only reason you would not want this to happen is if you just want your ideas to be distributed freely or you've created a viral ebook and want everyone in the world to read and distribute it. If that is the case this article will still be of some value to you.Now back to the Rapidshare ebook file storage system. What I'm referring to when I say protection is I mean that it is much harder to steal from Rapidshare than from your website. That is of course unless you have other security measures incorporated into your website on the server side of the equation. That costs money and is well worth it when you can afford it. If you are just starting out then you are probably not ready to make that sort of investment yet. Rapidshare is strictly and place where you can store your files and link to them with a kind of coded link. This precludes people from just trying random file names on you domain to try and find your precious files. You cannot guess the link url using any sort of logical or even illogical pattern. The url is long and makes no sense whatsoever.How you protect yourself using Rapidshare is that you only share your url with those you want to have it. It will not be spidered by Google and therefore won't be searchable through search engines. You can use it as a download link on your completed sale page and avoiding storing the file on your own domain. This is truly only a minor security measure and you'll want to upgrade to a server side protection system as soon as you start making some real money.