[filmscanners] RE: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Web home page writing software)

["Mike Finley" <mike@efikim.compulink.co.uk>]

They don't need to do Alt Prt Scr. If they read your web page, the image has
to be downloaded to their PC (or Mac or whatever), and is likely to get
stored in the browser cache, and can be retrieved from there. If you want to
add a copyright, it needs to be in the image as sent to the browser, and not
added by javascript coding in the browser.

The only realistic solution is to provide an image of just sufficient
quality for the purpose, and accept it may get ripped off, but mostly by
people who would never have even considered paying for it anyway.

mike

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Julie Cooke
Sent: 03 August 2002 10:39
To: mike@efikim.compulink.co.uk
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Web home
page writing software)


I was advised to disable the right click by another photographer who has had
problems with her images getting stolen and used on the web.

I'm aware that people can do Alt Prt Scr to grab the images, or disable the
browser. However another site that I used to run had a similar feature where
it displayed a copyright notice when the user moused over the image. This
resulted in a lot of emails from people asking to use the image, rather than
just take it. It has to be said that most were from school children using
the images for their homework!

Julie


-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski
Sent: 02 August 2002 18:49
To: julie@lightdrawing.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Web home
page writing software)


David writes:

> ... there is code on the web that will encrypt
> your pages so they are viewable with a
> browser but not editable.

A waste of time.  If you can see the image on the screen, you can steal it.

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