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levlaz
I don't think this is necessary.

"You invested a lot of time in developing your JS code. Why give it away for free?"

-- Because its the right thing to do.

r0ckcg
What if you developed it so you can sell it and you don't want people to steal it from you?
McDiesel
You can't "defend" your code, period. Not front-end code at least. Go ahead and minify and obfuscate it all you want (or add domain or date protections) ... anyone with minimal knowledge and a little effort will walk right around that in no time...
alexfrisco
I do not agree completely with "anyone with minimal knowledge and little effort". That is the true with some obfuscators, basically because they suck. However, I dont think that we should put them all in the same bag. Consider this example for instance: http://jsfiddle.net/JScrambler/5ujp3/ It has anti-tampering and other stuff in it. I REALLY don't think it requires minimal knowledge and little effort to hack it.