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Winterchase
11-11-2006, 08:29 AM
A good friend, a wild-life photographer, has first class pictures on her site which are being downloaded and probably copied way too often, and on more than one occassion used without her permission. She's good, her pictures are great, but isn't there some way she can keep them from being copied?
StephanieCordray
11-11-2006, 07:09 PM
There is a javascript that will disable saving pictures using a right click. try http://www.javascriptsource.com or http://hotscripts.com and search for "disable save" or "disable right click"

In addition to that, if she has her own hosted site she can disable hotlinking through her control panel since there are a lot of people who like to link directly to the pictures on someone else's site.

If she doesn't have her own hosted site, I'm sure there are some scripts out there somewhere that won't allow people to do that... what they are called... don't know... but if you look the script will probably be pretty descriptive of what it does.
SiteExpress
11-14-2006, 02:42 PM
As I mentioned in your other post about this, there is no real good solution. However, have them watermark their images, and they will stop most people.
StephanieCordray
11-14-2006, 02:49 PM
He's right about that one... there is no foolproof way without watermarking them which entails a lot of time but is the best solution. People desparate enough to get the pics will and have taken screenshots and cut out the desired section. With watermarks, the pictures will be virtually useless to anyone else without a lot of work on their part and most aren't willing to put in the work... that's why they steal other people's work.
DLPerry
11-15-2006, 08:15 AM
Just thinking out loud :)

Since it is possible to call a script based on mouse click/hover/etc. - I wonder if writing/installing some sort of script that would automagically take 'right-clickers' to PayPal would be of any use.

Since it would only work for cursor/mouse activity - it would not stop menu users from trying to File/Save As an image - but it might help to keep the honest people honest - sort of by forcibly by reminding them that this is a copyrighted image and must be paid for.

Just a thought....