If someone downloads an image and puts it in a folder on their harddrive without the original artists permission, it's theft IMHO. What more proof do you need? The password protection of the folders is designed to keep people from not seeing what's in them.....to hide the theft. You know......those who create browsers could stop this. Eliminating the "save as", "view source" "select all", "copy" and "print screen" "caching images to the temp folders" and "offline browsing" would go a long way to eliminating this problem. The only way an item could be obtained is through a legitimate download link created by the artist/page creator. Sure, I suppose someone could "hack" the page, but most of these people would be too lazy to try and figure it out. It would be nice if Microsoft and Netscape at least took it upon themselves to implement these changes. Tutorials and the like can be set up for download as easy as not. I can think of no legitimate reason for someone to save pages on the web other than to save a tutorial for later use. Other than that, they just want to steal something.