I'm with Steve on this. Call them (the numerous "hacks" mentioned in this thread) deterrents if you like, but there is NO WAY to secure images.
You can brand them with a big watermark, and make sure your copyright and terms of use notice are prominent on the page, but the nature of the web is that they ALREADY HAVE downloaded a copy. Justin on 20/06/03 8:17 AM, Steve Keller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > No there is not a way. The way the web works is by sending your content to > someone else' computer. Once it's there, they have a copy, whether it's in > their cache or actually saved as a file. There's no way to prevent a > determined user from stealing your images, trust me on this one, a good > number of my photoshops are being sent around as anonymous "funny" emails. > > You can disable right-clicking with javascript, but this is pointless. In > IE, the user can just drag your image up to the address bar and poof, your > javascript is gone. And on browsers that can't do that, there's still the > cache. Even if, by some scripting voodoo you manage to keep your images > from ending up in the cache, what's the keep the user from just doing a > screen capture? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
