On 10/4/2011 9:18 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-10-04 6:06 AM, Keith Mosier wrote:
My daughter pointed out that the Flickr account that I used still
allowed a download of my photo, so I'll be taking it off that website
soon. I thought I had selected the protected options. I tried but
couldn't locate the option of sharing without allowing use.
Keith, you have uploaded that image with Flickr's most restrictive
policies. It is set to License: copyright, all rights reserved. There
are no menu options to allow download. If you right-click on the image
you get a copyright noticed and no download menu.
You would have to be very determined, and be technically proficient to
download it as it appears there on Flickr. But as J.C. pointed out,
one can simply do a screen-grab to copy it. And that's true of all
photo sites on the web. Even embedding your images in a Flash viewer
won't stop a screen-grab. And as Larry implies, "sharing without
allowing use" is a bit of an oxymoron. The image file has to be be
downloaded into the browser for the browser to display it. That's how
browsers work. Anyone who knows about the "developer" menus in Safari
or Chrome can get at the cached copy or the direct link of any image.
So nobody out there will protect your image any better than Flickr
already has for you. The only way to guarantee preventing
unauthorized use of your images is to avoid putting them on the net,
anywhere.
Rather than uploading your images, it would be fairly safe to just
describe them to us in vague terms. "Here's a picture of a pretty girl
holding a colourful beachball. The background is mostly out of focus,
but it's blue with horizontal, wavy white lines so she's probably by
the water." I don't think anyone could make much use of that, even if
they cut'n'paste it somewhere.
-bmw
Sure, and then if you turn off java scripting, right click and it lets
you download anyway. Well at least it used to. I haven't seen
anything I wanted a copy of so much that I've bothered to do that in a
long time, if downloads are blocked. Who knows there may be
improvements in browsers. Still if you view a Jpeg, in a browser a copy
is probably in the cache. Bottom line is if someone want's your
picture badly enough they'll be able to get it.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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