Prohibiting JPEG Saving

[RobertDSC]

Is there a way to display a set of images and not allow remote linking and saving to a viewer's hard drive?

I have a set of images for my Russell Crowe site that I do not wish to be widely distributed, and I wanted to know if there was a way to prohibit these images from being taken off my pages and re-worked for cropping, et cetera.

My site is below.

http://www.crowegraphics.net/

[reuben]

Nope,

There is always a way to download it to your computer.

[Aaron Paulley]

But you have to have Flash. When I have a series of images I don't want widely distributed, I make a Flash slide show of them.

I know they can still be screen captured and taken, but the amount of work involved to capture an entire collection is a lot, so most wouldn't bother. Making the pictures a Flash animation removes the ability to "Right Click, Save As..."

Aaron

[Dan]

blech, I've always wanted to learn flash.

[terrencebrown]

Who's Jeff Wigand?

[RobertDSC]

Who's Jeff Wigand?

http://jeffreywigand.com/

[terrencebrown]

Hmm.

[avg-joe]

If you have Dreamweaver, I believe now there is a third person extension available from macromedia's site that allow swift creation of flash slideshow presentations. I don't remember the exact name, so you will probably have to look for it on the Dreamweaver exchange. Just go to http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/dreamweaver/ and click on "Flash Media" in the dropdown menu.

Another idea would be to show the images through small applets. Generally, applets are not right-clickable and don't usually screen-capture well. The downside is that they can be a little slow loading. I would suggest a thumbnail page linking to a seperate page with a single image.

Hope that helps some! :D

[terrencebrown]

You should copyright the images to keep people from copying them.

A copyright goes a long way to prevent content from being reproduced without authorization.

A copyright should keep people from even using screen captures off your site even if you use the latest technology.

You should post the copyright warning at the start of the website with an agree-disagree choice.

Like "FBI Warning - do not rereproduce! $250,000 fine if you copy these copyrighted images again."

[lemon]

I don't know much about copyright laws in your country, but in my country you have right to use up to 70% of the square of the image without paying a cent (and even linking to) the author of that image. An in most cases that's enough.

Regards

[terrencebrown]

But, if he copied them in the first place, who cares?

[nsr81]

Use a Right Click Disabling script, this will deter abour 40% to 65% of your visitors since this portion is newbie to the net. Others will always find a way to get your images, no matter what.

[terrencebrown]

But, they aren't his images.

[nsr81]

then as you said, who cares? :D

[terrencebrown]

Very good!

I guess I don't care if he can protect those images.

But I guess I do care a little if he copies them in the first place.

But perhaps I should care less and stop bothering people.

Thanks!

[ChaChing]

encrypt the pages or use a script to say something when they try and r.click :rolleyes:


encrypted source> www.technointelhosting.com

script > www.technointelhosting.com/email.htm

[lemon]

Then go to View/Source menu, get the address of the image you are interested in and download it. :)

Or click on "Edit with (Frontpage, Dreamweaver etc.)" button and get the whole page including images into the html editor. :)

Or use "Black Widow" to download the whole site onto your hard drive.

And after that you will see that there is no way to protect your imaegs from being copied except you will use Macromedia Flash. But this Flash presentation will become a little bit too big for a normal web user to wait till it downloads. So, if you are placing your images onto your web site - be sure someone will copy them.

Of course, you may use watermark on an image - in this case it becomes useless. But on the other side - it is better not to place images onto your web pages at all than to place a watermark on them :)

Regards

[ChaChing]

Yep, there is always a way to do anything on here. The internet has "no limits". But with basic walls it usually stops the average user.

[lemon]

If you are creating an image gallery and do not want anyone to be able to get your image, you can create thumbnails and link them through a variable (containing only image name without a path - you can even encrypt it, in case you are crazy) sent to a PHP, PERL, ASP whatever page which will be opened in another window without any scrollbars, menubars, any bars. And, of course, you should place a right click protection onto that page.

In this case, even if an bad guy will get name of you image - he will get only a name of a picture without knowing where do you store it. In case he will be so cleverto know about F11 button in the Internet Explorer and mazimize your window - he will stil never ever get an access to the menu bar because we have disabled it with JavaScript already :D

I just remember how I wanted to get a JavaScript code from such a window. It is really not worth trying to do that.

Of course, he can take a look at the source code of your initial page to know what page you are opening in another window, but you can always put a check like this:

if (!isset($someVar)) {
print ("Get lost. If you are sure you shouldn't get lost - contact <a href=\"me@myhost.com\">me</a>");
} else {
proceed the code
}

into your PHP code on your showImage page.

Regards

[pmulcahy]

There is a way to copy right-click disabling script images to your hard drive, but since you are interested in the opposite, I won't post it here.:p

I would suggest going to a search engine (my favorite is www.google.com) and putting in something like "Right-Click Disabling Script" or something like that.