Track copied,pirated pictures,images

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Let's put it this way.You have a webpage with some very nice ,high
resolution pictures,artwork images that you did yourself.
Does exist any freeware to search and find if some images on your
webpage are copied(captured) and planted to some other website.I was
thinking about certain
image search program where you can put a certain image in the program
and the program can find you a copy duplicate of that image along with
url address.Or any software,just curious.I ve searched a lot in
google.Couldn't find any so far. Thanks
 
Thanks protean
But ,theres a problem,as you know a very known method of copying
pictures and images is using image capture programs as Screen
hunter,Snagit etc.What happen?Thieves after capturing these images save
these images on certain directory of their computer and they rename
the image file using a word or expression that they like and than they
post the image on a certain
website of theirs?So its a bit difficult to track by filenames.
 
Thanks protean
But ,theres a problem,as you know a very known method of copying
pictures and images is using image capture programs as Screen
hunter,Snagit etc.What happen?Thieves after capturing these images save
these images on certain directory of their computer and they rename
the image file using a word or expression that they like and than they
post the image on a certain
website of theirs?So its a bit difficult to track by filenames.
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Maybe you should use the same method Amazon uses to discourage people
from grabbing their scans of book covers to protect your images.
 
ben said:
Let's put it this way.You have a webpage with some very nice ,high
resolution pictures,artwork images that you did yourself.
Does exist any freeware to search and find if some images on your
webpage are copied(captured) and planted to some other website.I was
thinking about certain
image search program where you can put a certain image in the program
and the program can find you a copy duplicate of that image along with
url address.Or any software,just curious.I ve searched a lot in
google.Couldn't find any so far. Thanks
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Conventionally, you put a watermark in the image.
 
ben said:
Let's put it this way.You have a webpage with some very nice ,high
resolution pictures,artwork images that you did yourself.
Does exist any freeware to search and find if some images on your
webpage are copied(captured) and planted to some other website.I was
thinking about certain
image search program where you can put a certain image in the program
and the program can find you a copy duplicate of that image along with
url address.Or any software,just curious.I ve searched a lot in
google.Couldn't find any so far. Thanks
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A program like "No Right Click"
(http://www.dirfile.com/aevita_no_right_click.htm) might help deter others
from saving/copying your photos.

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Rod said:
There's no way you can track pictures by pixels.
You might consider putting a watermark in your creations, as ugly as it is.

For that you could use something like Pictureshark:
http://www.watermark.studigotchi.com/index.htm
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Actually thats not a bad idea. You may want to consider it, Ben. The water
mark doesn't have to be totally visible, just big enough for you to know the
image is yours.
 
On Fri 11 Mar 2005 00:18:18, Mel wrote:
Maybe you should use the same method Amazon uses to discourage
people from grabbing their scans of book covers to protect your
images.
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What method does Amazon use?
 
What method does Amazon use?
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When you right click and save image as you wind up with:
transparent-pixel.gif
or right click is disabled. It varies they have multiple servers, so
depending on which server you're on you might see different methods.
 
Let's put it this way.You have a webpage with some very nice ,high
resolution pictures,artwork images that you did yourself.
Does exist any freeware to search and find if some images on your
webpage are copied(captured) and planted to some other website.I was
thinking about certain
image search program where you can put a certain image in the program
and the program can find you a copy duplicate of that image along with
url address.Or any software,just curious.I ve searched a lot in
google.Couldn't find any so far. Thanks
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If you do not want anyone to see your pictures, the web is the absolute
worst place to put them. Keep them on CD locked up in a safe.

If your pictures are for sale, you are off-topic.

Hey, I'm just kidding, and mean no offense. I understand your plight, and
was just trying to point out the irony in the situation.


Any measure you take to protect them will only meet with a counter measure.
Maybe put a friendly statement on your site such as: "I worked hard to
create these pictures, and they belong to me. Enjoy them, but please don't
copy them without my permission." That would work on me, but I can't
promise it would work on everyone. :)


-- Bob
 
Bob said:
If you do not want anyone to see your pictures, the web is the absolute
worst place to put them. Keep them on CD locked up in a safe.

If your pictures are for sale, you are off-topic.

Hey, I'm just kidding, and mean no offense. I understand your plight, and
was just trying to point out the irony in the situation.


Any measure you take to protect them will only meet with a counter measure.
Maybe put a friendly statement on your site such as: "I worked hard to
create these pictures, and they belong to me. Enjoy them, but please don't
copy them without my permission." That would work on me, but I can't
promise it would work on everyone. :)
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-- Bob

Thanks everyone.Well,seems that the best protection is putting a
watermark.I agree Bob Any measure you take to protect them will only
meet with a counter measure.I'll try Picture shark,just to be on the
safe side.
Blocking right click doesnt protect copying images.Pressing both Left
and Right mouse clicks at once can bring up the right click
menu,though.
 
Actually thats not a bad idea. You may want to consider it, Ben. The
water mark doesn't have to be totally visible, just big enough for you to
know the image is yours.
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Do you mean just small enough to cut it off?
Go to the Page Source and enter the URL to get around anything. The ONLY
way to stop photos from being copied is ...... there isn't any.
I can take the whole directory form the USNO.mil.gov and copy it..

Actually there is ONE way. Place the ugly watermark at 45 degrees to the square of the photo.
Wasn't that easy. And it would look so good people wouldn't want it.!
Ain't goin' to happen'. Need a right-click tazer.
 
When you right click and save image as you wind up with:
transparent-pixel.gif
or right click is disabled. It varies they have multiple servers, so
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The only safe way to post pictures is to either make them look bad enough
that others won't want them liek going so small, so blurry, watermarked
through the image

Some other ways are to take an image and turn it into hundreds of squares
(10 by 10 pixels) and use a table to stitch them together to make an image.
People right clicking and saving the work only saves a small chunk of the
picture, and in frustration may give up. (but then there is a print screen
and graphic editor to get the image in 1 screen capture)

The disable right click may work, however people will be able to go and
'view source' and find where the image references to adn then load the image
in the browser (ie: a picture called happy.gif could be loaded by going to
http://somedomain.com/images/happy.gif ) THEN the html code that prevents
right clicking will not be activated and then it is just a simple matter of
right clicking and saying 'save as'.

The best way would be probably to eitehr not post, or post a low quality
version..

good luck, i haven't really seen anything that works to prevent picture
thiefing, however posting that there is a copyright and mentioning that all
they have to do is request permission to be able to use your pic on their
site you may get responces and know where the images are used (with your
permission)
 
James said:
The only safe way to post pictures is to either make them look bad
enough that others won't want them liek going so small, so blurry,
watermarked through the image

Some other ways are to take an image and turn it into hundreds of
squares (10 by 10 pixels) and use a table to stitch them together to
make an image. People right clicking and saving the work only saves
a small chunk of the picture, and in frustration may give up. (but
then there is a print screen and graphic editor to get the image in 1
screen capture)

The disable right click may work, however people will be able to go
and 'view source' and find where the image references to adn then
load the image in the browser (ie: a picture called happy.gif could
be loaded by going to http://somedomain.com/images/happy.gif ) THEN
the html code that prevents right clicking will not be activated and
then it is just a simple matter of right clicking and saying 'save
as'.

The best way would be probably to eitehr not post, or post a low
quality version..

good luck, i haven't really seen anything that works to prevent
picture thiefing, however posting that there is a copyright and
mentioning that all they have to do is request permission to be able
to use your pic on their site you may get responces and know where
the images are used (with your permission)
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If your site is on an Apache server, you should be able to set
something in your .htaccess file to prevent this from happening...
backdraw: Since this works in combination with the "referrer"
information the browser sends to that particular server, it may very
well be that a user with a firewall, or other software, blocking
referrers may not see the pictures, even though they come from within
the domain that hosts the pictures... But at least this option would
prevent 'hot-linking' to pictures on your site from outside your own
domain (such as certain Eastern-European sites do)... you even could
show them instead a picture saying "This picture was stolen from
www.somedomain.invalid".

HTML-source may be "encrypted" using a JAVA-script locally; but this
isn't 100% foolproof either since it i not a real encryption, just a
different way of displaying the page's source (after all... the browser
has to be able to interpret it)

Regards
Dick
 
How about a watermark?

dUg...past tense of DiG

The only safe way to post pictures is to either make them look bad enough
that others won't want them liek going so small, so blurry, watermarked
through the image

Some other ways are to take an image and turn it into hundreds of squares
(10 by 10 pixels) and use a table to stitch them together to make an image.
People right clicking and saving the work only saves a small chunk of the
picture, and in frustration may give up. (but then there is a print screen
and graphic editor to get the image in 1 screen capture)

The disable right click may work, however people will be able to go and
'view source' and find where the image references to adn then load the image
in the browser (ie: a picture called happy.gif could be loaded by going to
http://somedomain.com/images/happy.gif ) THEN the html code that prevents
right clicking will not be activated and then it is just a simple matter of
right clicking and saying 'save as'.

The best way would be probably to eitehr not post, or post a low quality
version..

good luck, i haven't really seen anything that works to prevent picture
thiefing, however posting that there is a copyright and mentioning that all
they have to do is request permission to be able to use your pic on their
site you may get responces and know where the images are used (with your
permission)
Click to expand...
 
Hey there,

How about a watermark?
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For this, I highly recommend Picture-Shark:

Homepage: http://www.watermark.studigotchi.com/index.htm
Download: http://www.picture-shark.com/setup.exe

<quotes from the page>
Picture-shark is the first choice for people who want to "stamp"
visible logos or text on their image files.

Here are some of picture-shark's features:

* With its wizard like interface it is super easy to use
* Create real watermarks
* Choose transparent color, opacity, position and much more
* Use the "feather"-feature to make the edges between the stamp
and the picture smarter as with any other tool, just by one
mouse-click
* Very fast (processing hundreds of pictures each minute)
* Support for different output formats and quality settings
* WYSIWYG preview-mode for all settings
* Support for preserving jpeg-headers
* copy&paste between other applications and picture-shark
<end quotes from the page>
 
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