Re: [CR] slightly off-topic question, wooljersey album

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Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:53:22 -0400
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: Re: [CR] slightly off-topic question, wooljersey album


I suppose the reason you would not want someone to save your images would be so they don't use them for bogus Craigslist ads or eBay auctions. You could deface the images with your watermark, of course.

-- John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada

On 21/05/2010 4:48 PM, Kurt Sperry wrote:
>> My question is: is it possible to protect uploaded pictures in my wooljersey
>> album from being downloaded by a user that is not logged in?
>>
>> Freek Faro
>> Rotterdam Netherlands
>
> There isn't insofar as in order for the image to be displayed on the
> viewer's screen it must be first downloaded, so any image that you put
> on the web that people can view can easily be saved to any viewer's
> hard drive. There is no possible way I have seen or can even imagine
> to effectively protect images from being saved. People try tricks
> like writing scripts to disable right click or hiding the image under
> a transparent layer or using flash, but of course none of them work
> because in the end the image must be downloaded for it to be viewable.
>
> If you don't want an image downloaded; don't upload it.
>
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham, Washington
> USA