title: Prevent HTML Source Code Stealing
body: <p>Recently I did some web design work for a person. I continued to show him progress by giving him a link to his new site on my development server. Nearing the end of completion, he dropped all contact with me and I was completely unable to get a hold of him. I took a look at his site recently, and he mixed a combination of his old site, with the new one I was creating. I thought maybe he redesigned it himself after looking at my version, however a quick look at his source code shows that the parts I recognized were full out just copied by viewing the source code on my dev server. So he completely stiffed me and I received no payment from him.</p>
  
  <p>Just wondering if there's anyway to prevent that in the future?</p>
  
  <p>My first thought was obfuscation, but a quick search shows that doing that to html is not recommended and not foolproof anyway.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously this is a lesson learned for me to get some sort of up front payment first, but being able to prevent work from being so easily stolen in the future would be nice.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any developers that have come across similar issues? How do you show someone the progress of your work without giving them plain as day access to your source?</p>