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I agree completely, Spit. This is mainly going to be of interest to corporate types who have the bucks to afford it and clients who will have an incentive to use the client. You might want to take a look at this link. One of the functions of this freeware app is "Digital Rights Management," which says it will add copy protection for images in a pdf file. Adobe is listed as one of the technology partners of the Mirage people so the technology may be similar. In this case, the client is Acrobat reader which is pretty widely installed though I believe it has to be version 5 or later. If it actually worked, you couls simply put each image in a pdf. I'd be interested in seeing what it actually does especially for free,) but the DL's a bit big just to satisfy my curiousity. At any rate, your point is well taken. The more intrusive you make the protection, the more you defeat the purpose of having people view the images to begin with. You have find a compromise position. Since the people who are doing the large scale ripping and reposting are probably the people who know the most tricks, you're mainly going to be thwarting the rather more benign (IMO) people who just want to use the picture for wallpaper or save it to view again. That would seem to argue in favor of just putting it up there, which I know galls many people. But hey, I don't have a gallery so I shouldn't comment anyway.

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