There's no way to keep people's browser from downloading your images. Especially not if all they're viewing is the raw image. Besides, even then there's ways around it. If they can get it on their monitor, they can screenshot it.
Darnon
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From: Shane Beaulieu
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Art thief
I find it strange that no one bothers to simply lock out the down load options when they display their art on the net. If all you want is people to look at it and not have it then lock it out. "lets see now, right click, internet folder options, advanced, and.....THERE!! Now they will never get my stuff again!!! You can look but you can't have!!!" 8)
Terra <VampireGod_at_gmail.com> wrote:
still the clear water maker of a big O and a C in it is your best bet
on protecting your art.
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:23:35 -0700, David Parenteau
<kitfox_at_firstlight.net> wrote:
> At 04:56 AM 3/9/2005, you wrote:
>
>
> >Artwork get ripped and us all the time online if any one wants to stop
> >thief of their art work its easy just us a clear water mark of a big
> >copy right mark in the middel of it . Its so easy to do.
>
> So easy to ruin your art, yep. And that's what a lot of folks do, ruin
> perfectly good art in the name of protection. Hey, Terra, do you also
> paint a huge "Owned by me!" across the entire top of a nice car, or
> watermark your house too?
>
> >If you don't
> >1000's of webbers that use graphics and snag them will share them all
> >over the net and they really don't care who it belongs to because it
> >was not marked.
>
> They'll grab it even if it is marked. And some of them are even good
> enough to remove the mark. Unless you UTTERLY destroy the art in question
> with the mark, but then it isn't really art anymore, is it?
>
> >People don't care about copy right laws if they want
> >it and its not marked right its called a freebie to many. I been
> >seeing this for the last 11 years on the net with Yahoo! clubs and
> >groups .com.
>
> Isn't it kind of silly that the entire groups thing hasn't been around that
> long? I believe somebody had this discussion with you before,
> though. Rather than ruin your art, most of us get around by two
> procedures: 1: Contact the person and ask them nicely. This works in 75%
> of the situations generally, and the art is taken down. 2: Failing at
> that, slap their ass with a DMCA Takedown Order and scare the shit out of
> them, plus get their account pulled by the ISP. :) This works in most of
> the rest of the situations.
>
> Yeah, you could watermark it, and then people probably won't steal
> it. That's not because you watermarked it and they know it's yours,
> though. You could have a very plain and blatant non-obscuring info chunk at
> the bottom making it obvious that it's yours, and people would still steal
> it. It's because people steal art that is GOOD, and they steal art that
> they LIKE... And when you slap that huge blurb over it, suddenly, your art
> sucks, is no longer good, and nobody likes it anymore, so nobody steals it.
> :)
>
> It all really makes sense when you put it logically.
>
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