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Subject: For those wishing their images to be looked for against image theft...

Jumpstartme2 opened this issue on Aug 18, 2003 ยท 53 posts


JohnRender posted Tue, 19 August 2003 at 12:40 PM

Heck, if you can find a way to protect images, then add me to that list. As far as I'm aware, there is no known way to protect an image from being downloaded. Disable right-click? Disable caching to the local hard drive? Displaying the image in a custom viewer? All of these methods are defeated by a simple screen capture program (or hitting the "Screen Print" button) and, if needed, a little stitching in Photoshop. Not to rain on anyone's parade, but as long as an image is displayed to a user, then it can be "stolen". All these "security" methods do is piss off the casual user who uses right-click for navigation or who doesn't want to download the "Bondware Viewer" to see images.