Your question is not clear. What do you mean by 'ripping'? Can you, or anyone else, actually demonstrate this 'ripping'? If it is due to a security vulnerability in your web server that involves a non-trivial exploit, have you contacted the vendor for support?

Normally, you stop users from reading the text of your CGI scripts by using a stable web server, and configuring it not to allow cgi scripts without the execute bit set to be sent as source. Assuming that the CGI scripts work at all, then this should be the default configuration.

Of course, there is nothing to stop someone with no respect for copyright laws from asking someone that has already bought one or more of your scripts for a copy. If that person also has no respect for copyright laws, then they will likely give that person a copy of the script anyway.

Perhaps you should be selling support contracts on your scripts, and allowing people to pay for you to make extensions on the code.

In reply to Re: Perl Security by mugwumpjism
in thread Perl Security by p3rl

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