At 08:21 PM 9/22/02 -0700, Scrapper BlackDragon wrote:
>--- John Hooten <jhooten_at_binary.net> wrote:
>> I couldnt help but pop up on this topic...
>> There is NO way that you can allow a standard image
>> to be seen and not saved.
>
>Correct, you raise some very good points (that I often
>facilitate!), but it depends on what you are trying to
>achieve. Illegal mirroring? Art rip-off (water
>marking seems to be a reasonable way to slow this
>down)? Copying/saving in general? Restricted access?
>
>Also if you make it too hard (like logging on to the
>secure LAN connection at work), then people frequently
>just won't bother.
Agreed. I can't name the number of webpages who's grand security scheme is
a "Block Right Click" popup that doesn't work half of the time, and the
other times it just annoys me when I try to "Open Link in New Window" and I
had to learn to Shift-Click on a link to accomplish it instead.
It just seems like the more archives put in "Security" measures like that,
the more annoying and difficult to browse it gets. Watermarking hsould be
enough for the living people, and the bots, well, if you focus too much on
them, you're going to push the living away...
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Hawkeye Graywolfe
Received on Mon Sep 23 2002 - 09:04:07 CDT