| BenKenobi88 said: Actually there is a way to prevent people from stealing your pictures. You need to purchase some software though, and it's expensive...plus it costs 10 cents per image blocked. I choose not to block my avatar here because it'd get too expensive...but it's totally possible. It not only takes off the option to save image, it also prevents people from "printscreen-ing" and copying your image in any way! |
You can deter Joe Average, but that's about it. All I need is a utility to take a "snapshot" of the current screen frame being rendered by the graphics library. There isn't any way to completely control what is done with an object--including an image--from the server side... you would have to gain control of the client side software, and I don't suggest people start trying to upload javascript, etc. code to end users that's crafted to take control of part of their browser/OS functionality. That would be a nasty thing to do, but even that couldn't stop those of us who can write software to download and manipulate web objects without using a browser. Heck, I can just use a Firefox proxy plug-in to exercise strict control of the scripts I allow to be downloaded and executed.
I like the advice of most of the posters here... if you don't want it used by others in ways you can't control, don't put it on the Internet.
