I Need This Hack called Antitheft system

Description:
With one of my sites members submit nicely formated content in select forums. Most include thread content with a bunch of images/thumbs (sometimes hundreds of images) and over time we found that some users were using the quote button to get the content and image BBcodes and doing a copy/paste on the entire first content post and reposting on other forums claiming it as their own. This template edit helps to curb this practice. I have had several people ask me how this was done so I will provide it here. I imagine the method may help people to adapt it in other ways as well.

What this does:
This template edit removes the QUOTE, MULTI-QUOTE, and QUICK REPLY button in the first post of a thread in select forums and replaces it with an "Anti-Theft" image button instead.

Note:
Nearly nothing is this world is perfect. There are a couple of ways to get around this but we have seen a DRASTIC reduction in copy/paste thread theft due to this. This is especially useful when the thread content contains lots of images and thumbs linking to images BBCode. I also, see no reason why this would not work fine in any 3.x.x install at the very least.

Install:
In template POSTBIT and/or POSTBIT_LEGECY

Find:

Code: 
<a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a>
            </if>
After add:

Code: 
<!-- ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1 AND in_array($forum[forumid], array(a,b,c,x,y,z))">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/anti-theft-postbit.gif" alt="Thread ANTI-THEFT Enabled" border="0" />
<else />
<!-- / ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
Find:

Code: 
<if condition="$show['moderated']">
Above it add:

Code: 
<!-- ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
</if>
<!-- / ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
That's it.
In the first code addition, customize the array (a,b,c,x,y,z) with the forum IDs of the forums you want this to effect. All other forums not in this array will not be effected and appear normally. Also, you will have to create an image and alter the "img src=....." part.

I have attached two screenshots. One is the normal postbit button layout and the other is what it looks like with the Anti-Theft enabled.
 
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