I received an email from a fellow marketer a few weeks ago telling me that people could easily steal content, ebooks and software that I was selling at my web site.

How?

I was using PayPal.com as one of my payment options and the script that PayPal gave me to directly link to the order form of my products exposed the link to my download page.

Before I go into a solution to this PayPal dilemma, I will write about the most common form of theft on the Internet. which is other stealing content or graphics from web sites.

Right from the very start of the Internet, users have been "borrowing" content, images, graphics from other web sites.  With the exponential growth in the Internet, webmasters all over are tempted to use copyrighted property on their sites.

When you spend hours or even days writing a sales letter for your product or service, it can be disheartening when you realize someone else has stolen it.

I have had this happened to me on numerous occasions.  I have visited other Internet marketing sites only to see my exact web pages posted with only the links changed.

The only way to stop this is to disable the user's browser copy option.  Cyber crooks will be less prone to stealing your ad copy if they are forced to type it out word for word as opposed to simply cutting and pasting your material.

A new piece of software called "HTML Sentinel" now gives webmasters the ability not only to protect their content, but to also protect the source codes of their web pages.

To protect content, HTML Sentinel will create a small Java code that you can put on your web page the disables the visitor's copy option.

Not only that, but this nifty piece of software will also turn your source code into jumbled characters so that no one can steal your Java script codes or the download locations of your software.

The problem with PayPal is that if you want to send the your customers directly to your download page after they order, the code they send you exposes the download page in the source code of your web page.

All the cyber crook has to do is view the source code of your HTML page and look at the PayPal code, which will tell him where the download page of the software or ebook is located.

Now that I have revealed this flaw in the PayPal system, please do not go looking for web sites that sell ebooks hoping to steal a copy.

I am only disclosing this flaw to protect you.  Please don't be a *cyber-crook*.

HTML Sentinel will protect your PayPal Java code so that no one can steal the link to your download page.

To download this software, just go to:

http://www.freecoolcash.com/cgi-bin/lnkinlte.cgi?l=html

Try to view the HTML code for this page and you will see this software in action.