Turtle opened this issue on Apr 19, 2003 ยท 141 posts
CandeeKis posted Thu, 24 April 2003 at 12:00 AM
Well all I can say, is that this kind of stuff just makes me SICK. The GALL of some people ~
You know....I did this a long time back, and going on memory, I think the steps were this:
I created a transparent gif (similar to making an imagespacer or clear gif that we sometimes use in webpage layouts to format how the page layout goes) I created it the same size as the actual image ~ then what I did is when I put it on the webpage, I made the actual image itself a "background" to a table and made the image the clear gif ~ so when they downloaded the image all they got was the clear gif! Then I encrypted the page so they couldnt find the name of the table background, and then added a dummy index.html in the directory. That pretty much stopped the stealing ~ excepting that they could do a "print screen" and paste it into PSP or Photoshop and then whack out the image that way. But of course this only works with images that you put on your site....and on a webpage....and doesnt stop people from copying from places like here or Poser Pro's etc. It really seems like such an uphill battle. There are literally thousands of people out there that have this distored view of what is acceptable when it comes to "using" (aka stealing) artwork from others and using it...and even worse, calling it their own. Its almost overwhelming to think that you can change the way the masses of people think. I recently had someone write to me about something or another (I cant recall at the moment what it was about, but it was some sort of inquiry about a tut or something like that - and during our email correspondence, they made this statement to me - jokingly of course but he meant every word of it I could tell - and his statement was this ~ "If its not nailed down its for the taking" ~ I never bothered to respond to him after that point. I'm sorry to all of you that have been effected by this...probably many more of us than we realize...I HATE these stupid Tubing Groups ~ they are mostly a bunch of wannabe artists that like to play like they can BE artistic ~ and their results are usually so icky and horrible, and they steal and ruin GOOD artwork in the process and dont give a %$#% who's toes they step on. Sickening.......DOWNRIGHT sickening!