Protect your pictures from thieves

[Kevan]

Stealing nice graphics and images is a widespread problem. Unscrupulous web site owners will steal your nice graphics or pictures and pretend it is theirs.

You can protect your stuff from being stolen by inserting a javascript code in your pages containing your custom-made images.

Enough said, here's the code (place it between the HEAD tags, but you will have to copy it from the source code - and this is the weakness):

<!-- Insert between the HEAD tags -->

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
var sorry="Sorry, that function is disabled."

function click(e) {
if (document.all) {
if (event.button == 2) {
alert(sorry);
return false;
}
}
if (document.layers) {
if (e.which == 3) {
alert(sorry);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers) {
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
}
document.onmousedown=click;
// -->
</SCRIPT>

[Cosmo]

Unfortunately, it is still easy to steal pictures. All the images you view on your web browser go into a temporary folder on your hard drive, so you can find them if you go looking.

You can also press ALT + Print Screen and that will copy the entire browser window to your clipboard. You can then paste that image into any photo editing program.

I recommend watermarking any pictures you are afraid of someone stealing. You can also use check out http://www.digimarc.com/. They have a digital watermarking program that puts an invisible watermark on your images. Whenever they are opened, they show up as being copyrighted. Each Digimarc customer has their own unique ID number for their images, and I believe you can track them anywhere on the web.

[Dale M.]

Stealing nice graphics and images is a widespread problem. Unscrupulous web site owners will steal your nice graphics or pictures and pretend it is theirs.

You can protect your stuff from being stolen by inserting a javascript code in your pages containing your custom-made images.

Enough said, here's the code (place it between the HEAD tags, but you will have to copy it from the source code - and this is the weakness):

<!-- Insert between the HEAD tags -->

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
var sorry="Sorry, that function is disabled."

function click(e) {
if (document.all) {
if (event.button == 2) {
alert(sorry);
return false;
}
}
if (document.layers) {
if (e.which == 3) {
alert(sorry);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers) {
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
}
document.onmousedown=click;
// -->
</SCRIPT>


So you put that code in... I can use "Print Key" (or one of many screen capture programs) and have your image in about 3 seconds.... Best protection is to put some sort of deterent watermark or text or your site URL in image in way that its a lot of work for anybody to "clean up" stolen image to a point where thay can use it... You are not going to stop anybody that is determined to take image, you are just going to slow them down a bit.

Dale