That's a very helpful tip -- thanks, Krypta. Still doesn't address the problem of people with good timing hitting the "print screen" button, but it makes life more difficult for the would-be image thief.
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That's a very helpful tip -- thanks, Krypta. Still doesn't address the problem of people with good timing hitting the "print screen" button, but it makes life more difficult for the would-be image thief.
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What if I have the flash developing kit and just download the whole flash?
Wouldn't I be able to rip it apart and save the pieces I want?
My point is that you can't really control access if you put it on a webpage, do you? After all you accept that people "download" it by making it publicly accessible in the first place. Since visiting a site means I download it......
For example, I browse a lot of photo sites and save pics from them. Partly to get inspiration, partly because I like to have it accesible on my machine. I don't intend any plagiarism nor do I intend to do anything else illegal. Some of this sites had the "right click save as" function disabled. Which in my opinion is completely pointless. I would just go to the harddisk cache and move it from there to the folder I intended it to save to. It's not as convenient but works. Of course with Firefox you can just disable the disabling of functions.
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Being an image-thief myself(I made some screenshots of H&M pics to put as backgrounds onto my cellphone), I can tell you that low-res pics are not very good for making screenshots of, apart from that I do not know any good method, Vista even has some tool included which allows to select parts of your screen to capture etc.
If anyone wants to "professionally" steal them, he will probably have other means to do so, someone who merely wants them as desktop background or so will most likely not try each and every trick or hack.
Why don't you want people to download your pictures anyway if I might ask?
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My example and what you describe is clearly no theft (it's copyingOriginally Posted by Husar
) )but fair use, don't you agree?
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In my case it was not theft because I only copied advertisement pics and H&M doesn't even want to earn money with them. Also people who post pictures on the web should consider what can be done with them and what not.My example and what you describe is clearly no theft (it's copying
That said, I suggest using either watermarks or very low-res previews.
Maybe make a password-protected area with medium-res pics for trusted customers or so, don't forget a message board to create a community, for more lessons on e-business and getting you own enterprise started in the net-economy please contact me.
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The problem with both options is that I want to show off the quality of the pictures, which can't be done in low res or with a big ol' watermark across it...
Abandon all hope.
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Show a few high res teasers? You don't have to remove copyright from them, but more or less condone quietly that irregularities will happen.
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If people can simply download my pictures, they'll wont buy them.
Abandon all hope.
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The only way you can do with that is to make really extremely great pics that people would want to see often, by that making traffic on your domain, by that earning you money through ads.. 0-i
And of course, if they are drawn on real paper, there are those art fanatics that would want the real original copy and would pay some chunks for it..
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What kind of pictures?If people can simply download my pictures, they'll wont buy them.
If we're talking Photography then you know that you can't necessarily make a good print from a 800*600 image. And you wouldn't even need to make the images that big.
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Indeed photography. I've got quite a few b/w 's, which don't really need a bigger resolution...
Abandon all hope.
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I can only suggest smaller resolutions and big ole watermarks across the photo.
If they can see it, after all, they can hit printscreen.
CR
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