frontpage and piracy

[bob H]

i sell digi photos on a web site. is there a way in front page to keep
people from downloading them?every time that you put the mouse on a photo
the little box comes up and gives choices to save print and ....so on.
can anyone help with this????

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

not possible.

they are all downloaded to your internet temp files automatically. it's the nature of the beast.

you can watermark them, or use smallish images that are possibly not re-usable.

disabling right click doesn't work either...so don't use it it only tics people off.

hth.

rob


| i sell digi photos on a web site. is there a way in front page to keep
| people from downloading them?every time that you put the mouse on a photo
| the little box comes up and gives choices to save print and ....so on.
| can anyone help with this????
|
|

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Add the following to the head section of your pages:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="ImageToolBar" CONTENT="No">

Other than that there is no easy way to protect any content on a web site, especially with photos,
since they have to be download to the user PC in order to be viewed.

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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

ps.
you may want to look at this site to see how they handle it (it's kinda typical, Corbis is like this as well) : http://www.comstock.com/web/default.asp

hth


not possible.

they are all downloaded to your internet temp files automatically. it's the nature of the beast.

you can watermark them, or use smallish images that are possibly not re-usable.

disabling right click doesn't work either...so don't use it it only tics people off.

hth.

rob


| i sell digi photos on a web site. is there a way in front page to keep
| people from downloading them?every time that you put the mouse on a photo
| the little box comes up and gives choices to save print and ....so on.
| can anyone help with this????
|
|

 

[Jon Spivey]

Why not just put "sample" across the photos? This way users can judge the
quality of your work but won't snag the photos.

 

[Andrew Murray]

yes....just put semi-quality examples on the web, or "watermark" them.....say
with "Sample Only" and then for those who wish to buy, send your high quality
prints, or however you do business.....you would obviously have some payment
method set up so people can't just down load willy-nilly -i.e. paypal, or credit
card facilities if you're using
e-commerce before they download the good quality images.


Rightclick scripts are pretty much next to useless, since when you view a page,
it is loaded into the disk cache of the user's system anyway.

 

[somebody]

Once pictures appear on the visitor's screen, they have been
downloaded *already* and can be retrieved. You could:

1) Make it more difficult (note: not impossible) to get the picture
- disable right-click save (many visitors will not like this)
- create a table, use the picture as background of the cell, place a
clear gif on top of it (saving will save a clear gif)
- slice the picture and place in an correspondingly dimensioned table
(saving will save part of the picture)

2) Make the picture of less value when downloaded
- use low resolution
- place a copyright text on the picture
- watermark the picture

Roger