Forum: Community Center


Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

tammymc opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 173 posts


agiel posted Tue, 12 August 2003 at 2:28 PM

I agree with some of the comments above - disabling the toolbar and right click menu is pretty much useless. Even more, it is also another case of 'protection' started with good intentions but ending up not protecting anything at all and being a pain for regular/legal usage. In the 3 years I have been member of this site, I can't stress enough how much I have learned by saving images I find interesting to view them later offline. It is part of the community experience. People leave, clean up their gallery. Bugs happen and could delete images (it has happened before). I am glad I could save some fantastic images before they dissapeared that way. In the end - if someone really want to copy images and sell them, they will find a work around it. The only way to protect images on the web is to not put them there in the first place. What next ? mandatory watermark across images ? java applet or plug in to display image ? This copyright issue is turning into mass hysteria and I don't like the way this is going. Please - remove this useless 'improvement'. Renderosity has made amazing improvements over the years which turned the site into one of the easiest to use in this category. Don't spoil it with crippleware. And before I get some comments - I already came across some of my images on other websites, some charging for them. I had to deal with them when I found them and I still have them online.