Protect Your Ebook Downloads

After you have spent your time to put together a quality ebook, you need to protect it from being downloaded by the wrong people. This article will show you how to prevent any unwanted downloads of your ebook or other digital media.

Overview Robots.txt File Set Permissions Temporary Access Password Abuse Hide Download Path Password Protect

Upload a robots.txt file in to your root directory and include the folder name where you set your downloads.

Set the permission of the download folder to 711 OR upload an index file to that folder. This makes that folder web inaccessible.

Name the download folders something that can not be easily recognized. For example, you could use "dl14243" and not "ebookdownload".

If your customer downloads your product once and don't need or don't have to access to your folder then you can set his access to expire for certain days. For this you need a cgi script that controls your members access based on days, ip address or number of accesses. http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/ipppro/index.html

If you have a membership site and you need to stop password abuse or sharing you can use scripts like: http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/macpro.shtml http://www.monster-submit.com/sentry/

Protect your download links: Like if you keep ...domain.com/downloads/product.zip, everybody knows the download URL. You can use cgi scripts that discloses the download path. http://www.cgi-scripting.com/downloader.shtml

If your ebook compiler has a password feature, use it. Once your ebook is protected, after your buyer downloads it, you can send him the password to open the ebook.

Follow these guidelines and the only people who will be able to download your ebook will be your customers.