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Protect post from copy paste

Friends keep asking me how to protect their blog posts from being copied.
As you can see I have no protection for my blogs because I think that the effort is futile. I'v seen posts of mine plainly copied in other blogs. In some cases they give a reference to my blog, and for those I am really happy.
In other cases they have no reference even though they just copied and pasted without any work of their own.
Still, my friends want to restrict copy-paste, so I prepared a list of the available solutions:

Database Version Control

There are two types of projects I am involved in these days.
  1. Custom enterprise applications where we design the database and manage it.
  2. Web applications, that we host, where each customer has his own copy of the database.
In both cases there are many copies of the database installed.
  • Developer databases
  • Test database (both internal and customer)
  • Production database
It is obvious that these databases should be under some Version Control so that can be easily synchronized.
Usually when a database is upgraded, a new version of the application is issued. If only one application is using the database then application-database sync is easy.
When multiple applications are using the same database then this problem is quite difficult to solve.
This is my solution to database versioning problem: