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Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

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


kbennett posted Wed, 13 August 2003 at 10:55 AM

Disabling rt-click has been rejected as a total solution every time. Tammy's title to this thread indicates clearly that this was intended to be a small step toward protection, not a total solution. We all know that total protection is not feasible, just as it's not possible to prevent the determined burglar from breaking in to your house. But we all take simple steps to protect our belongings; window locks, alarms etc. in the knowledge that it will deter the casual thief but not the pro, and that's what this was supposed to be; something to deter the casual grabber and tuber. Whilst I'm using such words as 'thief', I want to address a point that's come up a lot in this thread, and that is that we DO NOT regard everyone who saves an image as a thief. When we refer to image theft/thief we're referring to the people who were the source of so many threads like "Do you recognise any of your work here", "Tubers stealing my work!" etc. This change wasn't done with the intent to piss people off. We thought we were taking a small but valid first step to stop the misuse of people's work in response to the amount of 'Why doesn't Renderosity do something about it' posts in the type of thread I alluded to in the previous paragraph. Damned if you do, damned if you dont huh?