robertburns

How do you stop users taking pictures of text from your website? I have been on sites were, if you right click on anything it won't let you save it. You have to write to the webmaster and ask for permission.

I am using Dreamweaver.

Rob

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centurion

I think dynamicdrive.com has scripts that do that.

identity_00

Yes there are scripts that can do that and other solutions, however, it will still be possible to steal and sometimes it
is even more tempting to steal because your trying to tell
someone they cant do something.

Sharpy

I think the only way to ensure someone doesn't download is not to upload the info/picture in the first place. Disableing right click will stop a novice, but the content on your site is already on the visitor's hard drive the moment they arrive on your site.

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armstrong

When I view streaming media, I can't figure out a way to save it to my PC. If you really want to stop someone from seeing a picture, wouldn't presenting it as such prevent theft?

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dhdrw.com

use this code in your pages body to disable right click, although there are many methods of copying a photo off of a website.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/web-design-discussion/18886-prevent-copy-your-pictures.html

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--

var message="Function Disabled!";

///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}

function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!docume nt.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}

if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")

// -->
</script>

relaxzoolander

there really is no way to prevent images from being snagged from your site. i have seen many sites try...it becomes almost a fun game to hack their defenses. but i have not run into any sites that have succeeded.

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bassplayinuk

The only solution is to but a small logo or your site name/url in one of the corners of the picture. Make sure the addition is transparent so it's harder to edit out of the picture and that it covers something containing detail (not a blank spot).

When people steal your pics they'll have a tough time gettin rid of any indication that it's yours.

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emeri

Or you could put a tos on your website that warns them and says they would be breaking the law and all that. That seems to scare them. You should check out hotscripts.com, they seem to have a lot of good scripts for that.

adam_uk

i can rip streaming media, its easy

bassplayinuk

Doesn't help much when they hotlink the image though.

adam_uk

depending on the host you can block hotlinking

bassplayinuk

Or htaccess them if your host doesn't offer anyway of doing it in their control panel.

mstwntd

That also stops you from hotlinking the images yourself. For example posting in forums like these.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=18886

If you find out someones hotlinking your images, find out what image it is and instead of changing the location edit it to say something like "This image has been stolen from another site"

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bassplayinuk

If you want to host images for use on a forum just put them in a directory that is set to allow hotlinking. Risking losing bandwidth that you pay for from hotlinking is worth the effort of htaccess and using a separate directory for images you want to link elsewhere. The effort is a lot less compared to trying to find who's leeching your bandwidth then going to your page to change the link to the new copy of the hotlinked image.

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matrics

you`re sure to find what you need on hotscripts.com

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bassplayinuk

TOS means jack **** to a lot of content stealers.

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iZone

Its simply not possible to prevent theft of images or txt from a site, a simple "Print Screen" will get you any content you need, no matter what protection you think you are using.

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Driliquid

There is no way to protect content or images you display on the site.

Hehehe.. this is true..

Many ways for anyone to steal information from a site..
- Print Screen (beats all)
- File > Save As...
- Right Click
- View > Source

Best thing is to put your logo or address on the image, truthfully that can be easily edited.
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I wish Microsoft would take the File > Save As and View > source from the web browser that would help minimize theft.
Whats the point in those features anywayz ? ;\

Sadly internet is uncontrollable..


Goodluck

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Spirited

If you are going to the bother of disabling the user's right click then you had better disable IE 6's image toolbar (it appears when a user hovers over the image).


This goes with your other meta tags inside the head of your html page.

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"/>

(It's the first time I've tried to post code, so I'm not sure it will appear)

As for the issue generally, I hate it when I go on sites and the right click is blocked since I use it legimately when I surf the web to open pages in new windows and such. I trust my visitors, besides if they are determined to steal it they will, and if I was that precious about something I wouldn't put it up on the web - or I'd have a great big ugly copyright message through the middle.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=18886

If you want to aid legal protection maybe you should fork out for a digital watermark - it puts a code throughout your image so it can be shown to be yours even if they only use a tiny bit of it.

relaxzoolander

i would add...
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=18886
....dig it out of your 'temporary internet' folder
to that list.

[print screen...yes...thats a good one.]

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epcsoft

Can not be saved?It is very diffcult!May be you can use watermark ,try the soft:Easy Batch Watermark(http://www.soft32.com/download_25962.html)

scisoft

www.naturalworlds.org has a very good system. The only way how to cheat this system is to look into the temporary internet files.

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domainbrokers

printscrn does allow any image to be copied

that's why most consider the net to be public domain

one more thing, you can put a TOS on the site and watermark your images

when you see someone using them tell their upstream they have your image on their site

the big pain with images is people hot linking to your site using your BW

CPanel has a way to disable hotlinks if you have CPanel at your hosting company

if you don't have CPanel and pay to host, find one that offers CPanel

it has many such benefits to help newbie admins