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i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your homepage?
when they right click an error message comes on





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(Sparklings9) writes:

> i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your homepage?
> when they right click an error message comes on
>

Impossible. There are ways of making it less easy for the image to be
saved, for example, by displaying the image using the CSS 'background'
property. But it doesn't take much detective work to figure out where
the image is stored by viewing source or the linked stylesheets.

Of course, there's nothing to stop your users taking a screen grab of
the browser window and saving the image that way.

The only way to stop people copying your images from the web is not to
publish them there in the first place. Sorry.

Matt

While the city slept, Sparklings9 () feverishly typed...

> i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
> homepage? when they right click an error message comes on

http://www.html-faq.com/scriptingbas...ablerightclick

http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/all.html#media-nosave

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Nige

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Sparklings9 wrote:

> i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
> homepage?

http://dorward.me.uk/www/hide/

(and please try to come up with more specific subject lines, 'help in html'
could describe about 99.99% of the traffic in this newsgroup!)

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On 03 Oct 2004 19:29:40 GMT, Sparklings9 <> wrote:

> i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
> homepage?

With great difficulty unless you remove them.

You could tell them that it is illegal according to the Berne Convention
regarding literary and artistic works and, as I understand it, the
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement[1].

You can add watermarks and copyright text to your images in a way that is
difficult to remove.

You can also provide images at a substandard quality or small size that
will discourage their theft.

None of these will be 100% effective, though.

> when they right click an error message comes on

That's useless and won't work in all cases anyway (it certainly won't in
my browser). You have to realise that once the user has downloaded your
image by viewing your page, it's on their computer and there are many ways
for them to take it. Disabling the context menu will only frustrate law
abiding users, and do nothing to stop the ones that are out to take your
work.

Mike


[1] Obviously, it doesn't mean much unless you can prove that your work
was taken in violation of the provisions of those agreements, that they
apply to the perpetrator, and that you're willing to take the case to a
court with appropriate jurisdiction. Pretty much impossible, really.

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On 03 Oct 2004 19:29:40 GMT, Sparklings9 <> wrote:

> i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
> homepage?
> when they right click an error message comes on

See this page, which is related:

http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm

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> PLEASE

Are you being attacked? Dial the cops, we don't know where you are.

"Sparklings9" <> wrote in message
news:...
>i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
>homepage?

Don't put it online.
HTTP is a stateless protocol. By nature, everything your web page displays
is cached on the user's machine.
Don't want it stolen? Don't put it online.

-Karl

David Dorward wrote:
> Sparklings9 wrote:
>
>
>>i need to know how do you make somebody not copy pictures from your
>>homepage?
>
>
> http://dorward.me.uk/www/hide/
>
> (and please try to come up with more specific subject lines, 'help in html'
> could describe about 99.99% of the traffic in this newsgroup!)
>

Listen to David here. He knows what he's talking about. This is
something that we've covered time and time again in IRC for others.