From yesterday’s WD-L. I was tempted to send a response on-list, but others had answered. (Sans flame and smart assed-ness) So, the question that was asked:

I intend to design a site using only css, but I’m not comfortable with the idea that anybody can copy it and make theirs look exactly like mine (yes, it happens!). So my question is: are there any ways to protect the css files (by renaming them, putting them in a password protected directory, using
a php script etc.) and if somebody else has done it (or thinks it’s useful).

My response *would* have been:
1. Boy, are you in the wrong profession.
2. Go read Lemur’s essay on hiding content.
3. You do know that people can steal/copy/plagiarize your table based layout just as easily as a css based one, right?
4. No, I mean it. You really are in the wrong line of work.