Stealing my images
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pintoj1108
Joined: 2009-06-27
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Posted: Mon, 2009-06-29 13:38
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I have successfully managed to figure out how the application works and now have it fully operating. Recently I posted a gallery and a few days later stumbled across her pictures copied and stolen from her site on a social networking group (facebook) we contacted this person and asked them to remove them before we would take proper legal action. My question is, what would you do in regards to preventing this from happening again and have you ever had this happen to you? We have already watermarked the images in the lower left corner, I guess we will have to now move the watermark so that it covers the whole image. I was curious to know if you had installed a ‘disable right-click feature’ or if there are any other security features I could make to stop users from stealing our images. Thanks! |
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Watermarking is all you can do. You can prevent hot linking, but that's it. Sure you can keep IE from right-clicking on the image, but if I can see it I can copy it. To bypass your right-click non-"protection" all I have to do is use Firefox. If you have a transparent image hovering over the image using css, all I have to do is look at the source of the page and grab the image that way, use DownThemAll or any number of other methods, let alone taking a screen shot.
If you post an image on a website and it's viewable, it can be stolen.
Watermark, period. If I started posting images I really cared about I'd have a watermark right across the middle of the image. Subtle enough to still view the image just fine, but enough to make damn sure anyone stealing the image and anyone later viewing that image will know where it came from and who owns it. Along with posting terms of service and a copyright notice on my site.
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thanks for the suggestions, everything else i've read and researched was similar if not the same as to what you've said. Watermarking seems to be the most effective way--not that it solves theft but def. helps a lot. i appreciate the advice!
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I'll give my opinion any time
If I can see or hear it, I can copy it. Period. Might take some work, special hardware, special software, but I can copy it and so can anyone else who wants it badly enough.
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