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Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

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


fStop posted Fri, 15 August 2003 at 6:10 PM

" It's relatively simple to prevent all image theft " i think you mean its relatively simple to deter some image theft. stopping it is a joke. even 90% is being very hopeful. there are at least a dozen ways around it. and besides - 'no right click' javascripts dont work in all browsers, and especially dont work if you simply disable scripts in your browser. punishing everyone for a few isolated cases of image theft is only going to serve to alienate the rosity memberbase, and the real thieves will laugh at these changes and go on doing what they have been. in fact these 'no-rightclick scripts' are most often a huge inconvenience to legitimate users since they disable honest right-clicking (not just innocent saving of images but also copy and pasting text and URLs from the comments, etc). i think that a simple auto-generated copyright notice underneath the image would do much more than this no right-click script - like the one on deviantart. -gabriel