Copy protection of uploaded photo's - Jan de Boer

[Jan de Boer]

Hi people

Yesterday i saw a photo that was copied from the snails photo of Jacek at a Christmas market in Vledder Netherlands. My suggestion is copy protect the photos of Panoramio.

Greetings,

Jan de Boer
http://www.panoramio.com/user/1530386

[Draken]

Quote @Jan de Boer:

In which way do you suggest the photos on Panoramio or on any website can be protected?

Have you already read this http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14325 and this http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14059 ?

[FSup]

There is a way to to shut off the simple 'Rightclick and safe':
Put the images in a DIV-container as background image. Then put a 1x1px-graphic above it (IMG-tag) and use width and height to cover the DIV-background completely. This graphic should be a 100% transparent jpg or png. As it is only 1x1px of size it does not take to much resources (the sizing indicated by width and height is done at client site). This transparent image should be named like the original-shot to confuse the loader.

If someone now rightclick and safes the image, that persn does not safe the image he woul, he will get the transparent pixel


But of course he could safe the background photo although - just a small knowledge of html is needed to find the informations of the real photo's path in the HTML-file or the css But there is no 100% safe way to prtect those shots from being copied - in fact it is already copied when it is shown at the user's browser.

[pianoman4Jesus]

Quote FSup:

in fact it is already copied when it is shown at the user's browser.

Exactly! Disabling right-click does not stop people that know how web pages work under the cover.

>From time to time, I happen across a photo that I like well enough to make it my wall paper for a time, thus I download the original file and use it.

[© Andre Speek]

Quote pianoman4Jesus:

Exactly! Disabling right-click does not stop people that know how web pages work under the cover.

Still, that means it can stop the about 90% of the users that don't know how webpages work under the hood...



I believe Flickr uses this technique and it's not that hard to get the originals you want... But at least it is discouraging because even for someone who knows the tricks, it takes time... It keeps the quick-savers away and for someone who wants to get a large number of photo's I'd say have a go and good luck...

it is impossible to stop this copying of photo's, when it's on the screen the data is somewhere in the temporary internet files as well... Suggestion it is not possible to click-and-safe is 'misleading' users and it's giving them a feeling of 'security' that is false...

I think giving people a false sense of security is worse then making them aware that some insecurities are unavoidable...

Cheers,

Andre