how can i stop photographs being taken from my website

culabula88

how can i stop photographs being taken from my website? i am googling for photographs for a project and have come across various websites which wont let me right click and save target as for the photograph. How does this work and how can i get it on my own webpage??

Ruu_Old

Here is a start anyway. It disables the right click.

MarkR

You could also put a unobtrusive watermark on the picture...

Bard

There's absolutely no way of stopping people from copying pictures from your web site if they want to do so. You can annoy them with a script like Ruu suggested, but that's all it will do - annoy them. There's always a way around those scripts (e.g.: disabling javascript in the browser, using the Print Screen key, choosing "Save Page As" under the File menu or searching their browsers cache - chances are your pictures are there if they've viewed them on the web).

L31mr0d

MarkR wrote: »

You could also put a unobtrusive watermark on the picture...

yeah watermark is really your only option. If people can see the picture, they can take it. Disabling right click is only a nuisance as the person can still just drag the picture to the tab and have it open in a new window which doesn't have right click disabled. Also even if you make your site flash or something so that they can't even drag and drop picture they can still take a printscreen of it. Your best bet is to not show images larger than 640x480.

Also, is the problem you are having in regard to people hotlinking your images, or are you just worried about people taking copies of them?

EDIT: damn you Bard :rolleyes:... should learn to not leave a tab unrefreshed

SeanW

It's impossible to stop people from saving images from your website. A sufficiently talented and determined person WILL break whatever system you put in, even it if it means hitting Print Screen, pasting the contents into Mspaint and saving it as a Jpeg.

Sherifu

Watermarking is the only real deterrent.

culabula88

Take this webpage as an example. I cant right click on it - whats going on here and how can i get around it

http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=2785865&epmid=2&partner=Google

screen capture

culabula88

Deleted User wrote: »

screen capture

is that the only way ?

Sherifu

culabula88 wrote: »

is that the only way ?

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2785865.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A66F181DED2D9CD98E9930FDCFC4C15FBB

Save target as... All these schemes can be broken.

Stephen

If you have firefox you can just set it to not allow websites to disable the right click menu. Bam, right click save as

pp_me129

Well, from reading this thread I think we have found out, that copyrighed images go to somebody quite possibly a boards.ie user.... :rolleyes:;)

r3nu4l

Indeed, the Sky News website doesn't allow right-click so when I wanted an image the other day, I just saved the page to my C: drive, opened it on my C: drive and the right-click protection was gone. It's really simple. Unfortunately, ther's no easy way to stop it and even watermarking is not a gaurantee that people won't download it. Photoshop can do great stuff to watermarks...

Orion

culabula88 wrote: »

Take this webpage as an example. I cant right click on it - whats going on here and how can i get around it

http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=2785865&epmid=2&partner=Google

I can right-click on that. Firefox with NoScript enabled. TBH its a waste of time trying to stop people. Just use a watermark with your name/site on it.