Re: [pinhole-discussion] One way to scoopup our images for others site...

2002-03-12 Thread Chad Eby

At 09:31 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:

Scarry!


If this sort of unauthorized image copying impacts your livelihood and/or 
principals strongly enough, there are actions you can take:


ArtistScope ( http://www.artistscope.com/ ) offers a range of products and 
services (including image and site hosting) that prevent almost every type 
image copying.  The best part is that this protection is largely 
transparent to your visitors.


e-Vue ( http://www.e-vue.com/products/imagestudio.cfm ) produces tools to 
convert images to the better compressed and more secure MP4 (.vtc) format 
(the pro version will even translate a whole site).  This comes at the 
cost of visitors having to download a plug-in.


These solutions both cost time and money.

There are many scripts that can disable casual filching--they're usually 
free (except for time) but they won't stop the automatic 
image-harvesting.  A good explanation and listing of a pair of scripts that 
prevent image saving from the browser and direct linking can be found here: 
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Graphics/Theft/scripts.html


Finally, there is Digimarc's watermarking and MarcSpider ( 
http://www.digimarc.com/imaging/prspider.htm ).  This won't protect your 
images from being yanked, but at least you can track where and how your 
images are being used on the Web.  This costs money (like a subscription) 
as well.


Disclaimer: I don't have any sort of relationship with any of these 
companies/sites--just passing along information.


Best Regards,
Chad
pa...@separatrix.com




[pinhole-discussion] One way to scoopup our images for others site...

2002-03-11 Thread Andy Schmitt
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