Forum: Community Center


Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

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


JohnRender posted Thu, 14 August 2003 at 12:52 PM

This is stupid. Since a few people are stealing images, you are punishing every single person who visits the galleries? Since a few thieves are stealing images, I can no longer download an image to my hard drive to look at it later? And you call this place an art gallery?? Yet people can't keep copies of the art for themselves? People can't download an image to use on their own computer, as wallpaper?? Stupid, stupid, stupid. But, here I go again, getting fired up about something that doesn't affect me personally... I always use "Ad Subtract" to browse the web. I went to the galleries to see if this new procedure was in place... and guess what? Both the IE "image toolbar" AND the right-click menu appear perfectly fine for me. Heck, I can even save the thumbnail images if I want. But, for anyone else who doesn't run a JavaScript blocking-program, this could be an problem. So, what issue was this supposed to solve- the fact that people are saving images or that it's time for the site to piss people off again? As the poster said above, "The picture only serves to reinforce this point. "