How can you prevent someone snatching Photos from your website?

Robert Wilde · #1 12-21-2007, 03:29 AM

It's easy to grab a photo from someone's website.

You just drag it off the page to your desktop.

Usually, one has only low resolution shots on one's website, let's say 300 by 500.

It would be better if there was a way to lock images, so they can't be copied. Is that at all possible to lock this drag and drop copy function?

michaelnotar · #2 12-21-2007, 04:11 AM

flash websites where image are presented in a slideshow perhaps.

i have heard of a site being right click disabled, but only for PCs, but im sure theres a way around it for them too.

Josh_Hawkins · #3 12-21-2007, 04:42 AM

If the image is on screen, it can be grabbed. There are many methods, but if nothing else the person can just do an old fashioned screenshot of what is on their monitor. No stopping it, not with flash, not with anything I've ever seen.

DonLashier · #4 12-21-2007, 05:17 AM

At least disable the IE image toolbar and javascript right-click, but as already pointed out the only protection is image size and/or watermark. You can still grab the image with a little savvy but this stops the dummies.

- DL

DierkHaasis · #5 12-21-2007, 05:22 AM

Put a transparent give on top of the actual image.

As with everything in life you cannot prevent image theft from Web sites 100%, you can only make it harder. Which has the advantage that the thief, if caught, cannot talk himself out of it using the 'accidental' excuse.

Noel_Carboni · #6 12-21-2007, 07:42 AM

Showing a high quality but small image and several high resolution excerpts can be a reasonable approach. I did that yet still one of my images appeared in an internet video.

There's no real way you can prevent folks from grabbing your image off the web, but I like Dierk's idea to make it harder to do - overlay the real image with a transparent gif file (gotta go figure out the HTML to do that now). That will force the theives to do a screen grab.

-Noel

KevinStecyk · #7 12-21-2007, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noel_Carboni

That will force the theives to do a screen grab.

If it's on the web, it can be taken. All one has do is look at the source code (FireFox Control U) , find the jpg, and grab it. Photo copied.

And when looking at the code, just do a search for jpg.

As mentioned in another post, I have two DMCA complaints with Google for two of its blogspot blogs. One of my articles in my blog has been reproduced, including photograph in the article, on these two blogspot blogs.

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