Content Shelf’s PDF Protection Suite

Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced a few of our new Content Shelf features—the shopping cart service, our KISS philosophy (Keep It Super Simple), the no-hassle experience due to the special features built into our user dashboards, our unlimited stores feature, and our ability to stream video and audio to desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices.

Today, we thought we’d share another of our new e-commerce software features…

Most content publishers want and need help preventing anyone else in the cyber world from sharing and stealing their PDF Files (ebooks, sheet music, white papers, etc…).

Content Shelf’s PDF Protection Suite™ does the trick!

Attempting to stop file sharing or outright theft of PDF files is quite difficult… especially when one tries to tackle this by him or herself.  Just as new protection methods are developed, at great cost we might add, thieves figure out a way to reverse engineer the protection and continue to steal.  It’s unfortunate, but theft is more of a societal issue than a technical issue.

Here at Content Shelf, we like think outside of the box and have produced a very promising technology we like to call our PDF Protection Suite™.  Although it can’t stop people from sharing or stealing PDF files, it can GREATLY reduce the chance by deterring it.

Content Shelf’s PDF Protection Suite™ includes:

Digital Fingerprinting – With our digital fingerprinting, we literally encode the bottom of every page of the PDF document with the buyer’s information—specifically the First Name, Last Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Phone Number, and Email Address. With the buyer’s identifiable information on each page it drastically reduces sharing… because if a buyer shares the file, all of their information is out there for the world to see.

Password Protection – With this module, the buyer will need to use his or her email address to unlock the file. Without it, the file cannot be viewed.

Print Disable – No printing is allowed if our client chooses to activate this feature. Print disable will literally stop any and all printing activity in its tracks.

Copy Disable – With copy disable, a buyer will not have the ability to copy and/or paste the text and images of a file to another file.

Bottom line?  Thieves are going to steal.  That is what they do.  But we here at Content Shelf will do everything in our power to help deter people from stealing our client’s PDF files, and we believe our PDF Protection Suite™ will do just that!

We are very excited about the new e-commerce software platform, and we hope all of our friends and users are too!