find out if someone is using another person work? I need a site.

[gooberface1990]

Hi. I was thinking of looking into some things and I want to know what site takes the scripts and compares them to other scripts to see if they were copied from another persons work?

Also, the other reason why I'm doing this is because my teacher wants to find any copyrighted stuff from his students to see if they did copy someones work to get high grades.

Can someone send me a good site that checks that stuff?

[sniko]

Ah yea, i did remember my teacher talking to me about something on which you are describing, which unfortunately i cannot remember the name of. But usually students are silly and email it to their friends in the intranet which can be found from just looking at the logs , so i wouldn't advise that hahaha.

Anyway, i do think there is a site if i remember correctly.

Good luck!

-sniko

[gooberface1990]

I know there is a site too but I need help finding it. I used google so don't tell me to go to google search to find it.

I just need to find out that site before I loose hope on finding it.

[user099]

hi,

maybe you are searching for this http://www.copyscape.com/

[gooberface1990]

that's not exactly what I was looking for. It's this site that I saw before that you just insert your php, html, java, or other files into the site and what it does is does a master search to see if any of the scripts have been used on some other persons scripts.

It's not a search engine or anything. it's basically like looking into the scripts and finding similarities to other scripts that were submitted.

[Jordan Palmer]

I don't think I've ever heard of such a site/script...

[gooberface1990]

yeah. there's a site for it. someone told me the site before. I went to it and I go, "hmm, sounds like a good site to go to when I want to create scripts and I could submit it so no one copies my work." but it has been probably a year since I have seen the site and I really want to get back on that site and check it out.

There's a site I tell you. It does things, and some stuff. kidding. but yeah, there is a site. I know it.

[Djkanna]

You may be looking for http://myows.com/

[gooberface1990]

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IS IT. THANKS!!!

I've been looking for that site. I knew there was a site and I was right about it. thanks very much. best respects to you.

Just one more thing. If you upload something into the site, what are the steps of seeing if the scripts have been copied?

[Djkanna]

Well it really doesn't check it's only useful if you find by your own means that someone has copied your works, that way if it's uploaded to MyOws you can verify that you own it, when you uploaded it etc.

[gooberface1990]

dang. that stinks. well, this will be a good idea to use if I ever create scripts of my own and wants to keep it safe from copiers.

[a_bertrand]

If you write a PHP script nobody can copy it as they don't have access to the code (unless you make some really stupid things which let the visitors see the code), so no need to worry about the fact that somebody copies your script. Now if you start selling it, it is a totally different story as you can't really prevent that somebody start to distribute your sources after having bought one copy.

If you write a javascript on the other hand you have no way to protect it as it is send in clear text to the browser and everyone is free to check it, download it and modify it (same for flash, java applets and other client side technologies where you would need a tool to decompile the thing but you will mostly get the sources out of it).