Computer Question

[Classic Finn]

There is a way of preventing photos from being copied and downloaded from websites.. Does anyone know how its done?

Classic Finn

[Steve_Cox]

There is a way of preventing photos from being copied and downloaded from websites.. Does anyone know how its done?

Classic Finn

Heikki,

Right click functions can be stopped with Java script, but that is pretty easy to get around because every HTML thing you see on your screen is already downloaded to a temp file on your computer. So the answer is, the only way to keep your photos from being copied is to not put them on the web. But my knowledge is limited to getting the photos, not protecting them

[Ira]

Heikki, what are you afraid of them stealing?

Steve's right--because if it opens on the computer, it can be copied, even as a screen shot if someone wants it bad enough.

Can you add a watermark to the photos? Will that help prevent use of the photos that you're afraid of?

[Classic Finn]

Heikki, what are you afraid of them stealing?

Steve's right--because if it opens on the computer, it can be copied, even as a screen shot if someone wants it bad enough.

Can you add a watermark to the photos? Will that help prevent use of the photos that you're afraid of?

1st off Im not afraid of anything... Let me just say that there are websites in Scandinavia that wont even let photos be right clicked upon as far as copying them...nor downloading..thats why I ask if this is familiar to anyone. Which of course I didnt state immediately in the 1st place..
so my apology for that.

And Im talking about copy righted material.. used without permission. or copying of a product that has copyright or protected by Domestic or International Laws.

Ok a Watermark can be added and if it appears on someone elses sight it sure can be noticed ... especially if the owner can recognize it.. I know that nothing is sacred or protected anymore however things I know can be done to make it more difficult ...

Am I right or Wrong? Thats why I ask..if there is an answer to this..I dont want huge debate on the subject. We know that if someone wants somthing bad enough they will get it one way or another..

So Java Script is one way... ok.

Classic Finn

[Classic Finn]

Here is one way: Which is a Non Professional Tactic..

message = "Pirate!";
function NoRightClick(b) {
if(((navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")&&(event.button > 1))
||((navigator.appName=="Netscape")&&(b.which > 1))){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
document.onmousedown = NoRightClick;
// -->
</script>

Above is a script for "no right click" when anyone right clicks on your photo to save it a message will pop up ... The message on this one says "pirate" - you can change your wording there, but everything else in the script has to stay.

copy the above script and paste it into the page html (between the head) second tab. To get to the page html right click on the page (the same way to get to page properties) and just below page properties is page html.


Like everyone says, it's not fool proof, however, the message will be given that you do not want your images taken, they can find other ways.

Thats one answer I just found. or

http://javascript.about.com/library/blimgprot.htm

Heikki

[Ira]

I'm on a Mac, so a lot of this is greek to me.

But if someone can OPEN the picture on a site, on a PC, can't they still copy and paste it into another file, like Photoshop? That's how it works with a Mac.

Also on a Mac, we have something called a screen shot--which lets you take a picture of your entire desktop at any time.

So for example, if I had 10 naked pictures of women open on my screen, and I organzied the windows so they didn't overlap each other and you could see all of their boobs perfectly, I could take a screen shot and have all 10 images together as one graphics file.

I tried to think of another example besides naked woman, but I just couldn't seem to think of any.

[Classic Finn]

I'm on a Mac, so a lot of this is greek to me.

But if someone can OPEN the picture on a site, on a PC, can't they still copy and paste it into another file, like Photoshop? That's how it works with a Mac.

Also on a Mac, we have something called a screen shot--which lets you take a picture of your entire desktop at any time.

So for example, if I had 10 naked pictures of women open on my screen, and I organzied the windows so they didn't overlap each other and you could see all of their boobs perfectly, I could take a screen shot and have all 10 images together as one graphics file.

I tried to think of another example besides naked woman, but I just couldn't seem to think of any.

Ira Oh Ira ..... Nice example ....oooooops. Below is a quote from the website above.

Using a no right click script wont stop anyone stealing the images from your page. If anything it will just encourage people to take your images since use of such a script shows that you consider the images to be worth stealing.

Instead why not let the would be thieves right click on your image and select save but instead of saving your image have them save a different one instead. How can you do this? Well we can place the image to be displayed into a table as the background for the table and then place a transparent image in front of it as the table content. Anyone saving the image will be saving the transparent image and not the background one. Hopefully they wont notice that they have saved the wrong image until much later and will decide that returning to your site to steal the right one is too much effort.



Heikki

[s4son]

Heikki

I have used a feature of Paint Shop Pro that slices images into several smaller pieces. It then creates an HTML table from the image saving the location of each image slice as a cell in the table. The application then generates the HTML code for the table and cells. You simply copy and paste the HTML into your web page code. The idea is to create faster loading web pages. An added benefit is that when a user right clicks an image and saves it, they only get the piece that’s in that cell. Here is a brief online tutorial. I think the latest version is under $100 and it does a lot of other image enhancement/manipulation.

http://elated.com/articles/slicing-in-paint-shop-pro/

Scott F.

[dovaka]

there is no way to stop people from doing it there are just alot of ways to slow them down

[Classic Finn]

there is no way to stop people from doing it there are just alot of ways to slow them down

So Ive heard now..

Heikki

[asianflava]

They can always do a screen shot and edit it down from there.

[Classic Finn]

They can always do a screen shot and edit it down from there.

I reckon if there is a will there is a way....UGH..

Classic Finn

[Denny Unfried]

They can always do a screen shot and edit it down from there.

There is also a short piece of JS than will disable the PrtScrn funtion on Windows machines.

[toypusher]

...................Ok a Watermark can be added and if it appears on someone elses sight it sure can be noticed ... especially if the owner can recognize it.. .............Classic Finn

Actually, someone that is fairly good with PhotoShop (or a simular program) could remove most watermarks. To make it effective, you have to have it over areas that are very, very difficult to duplicate.