Why they don't have even a simple exploit to defeat the "save picture as" function here is beyond me. I went to a site - forget the name, I think it was mentioned by Robin Foss on the UF mail list - last week and for grins I right clicked to see if it would let me save a pic. A dialog window popped up saying something like "right clicking is prohibited"(sic). GREAT!! - love it!!! IMO, this is THE number ONE feature that should be implemented HERE. It's almost as if the sites like this one and, more blatently, DeviantArt are sort of inviting this kind of theft in the interest of increasing page hits and traffic. There's also a way to place a blank, transparent .png(?) over an image such that, when soemone does a "save pic as", all they get is a blank image file. Yeah, yeah - I've heard all the noise about "determined thieves" but these guys are into ease of ripping and speed and typically either don't have the skill or don't have the time to do more work-intensive stealing.

 At DA, they even come right out and say it's ok to download the pix for wallpaper and may even facilitate that. I don't have a problem with that so much but it DOES make it very easy for image thieves and might be why there is so much theft from that site.

I agree with gradient, above - I have personally made "fair" 20"x16" prints on a large format color plotter (not a "printer") that looked fine -especially at a normal viewing distance - and people actually paid me money for. Granted, they were only $20 but that's all these rip sites charge, probably. And these were from "small" 1024x768 rendered .bmp files with no blowing up of the image - just "fit to page" in MS Photo Editor.

I think really there are only two options for "serious" digital artists. Either display absolutely nothing on the web that you hope to sell (this is the advice of my printer, who has made his living doing art festivals for 40 years - digital photo-manips and pottery) or watermark the images you do display. Yeah, I suppose someone could spend hours painting out the watermarks or copyright text like M-frAUD did a little over a year ago but that's WORK and someone would have to have a lot of time and be pretty sure they'd make a good bit of money to go thru all that effort.

Rick