the copyright trick to protecting photos!

I have seen several sites that when you right mouse (PC), you get a cute phrase
and it stops you from being able to save it to your hard disk...

I sure would appreciate a direction of programming...or what ever it needs to
create that on my photo work!

Thanks in advance!

drmwvr wrote:

cute phrase and it stops you from being able to save it to your hard
disk...

No, it just stops you to use the context menu, it doesn't stop you from
saving the image to your disk.
It is considered rude to disable that menu. Some people may use it to steal
photos but others use it for navigation purpose.

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Don't waste your time. It won't stop anyone from getting the images. And,
speaking for myself of course, that message would make me MORE likely to
take them, just out of spite (I use my right-click menu quite a bit, almost
none of it for copying images or text).

If you want to protect your images, put a watermark on them, or only upload
relatively low-resolution copies.

"drmwvr" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I have seen several sites that when you right mouse (PC), you get a cute
phrase
and it stops you from being able to save it to your hard disk...

I sure would appreciate a direction of programming...or what ever it
needs to
create that on my photo work!

Thanks in advance!

Thierry

I understand your point...but there is no reason to right mouse click on my
site...except to download the photos...so...having said that, is there a better
way?....and yes...I know it does not stop the file from being downloaded to the
person that knows how to go around it...but to the average person, it would work

Javascript easily fixes being able to right click. This link will send you to
the page with the code- it will also display a pop up box with whatever message
you want when a user tries to save a photo. (Same code is included below this
message)http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/norightclick1.html And
contrary, i've never heard of it being 'rude' to prevent users from downloading
pictures- most people do it to either protect their photographic work (yes i
know there are ways around this) and especially to cut down on bandwidth usage
(do you really want users to download the megabytes of photos you may have on
your site?) Anyways, hope this helps! jp

================================================== ==========
Script: Basic No-Right-Click Script
Functions: Blocks right-click on mouse and shows alert box
Browsers: NS & IE 4.0 & later; degrades gracefully
Author: etLux
================================================== ==========

Put the following script in the head of your page:

<script language="Javascript1.2">

// (C) 2003 CodeLifter.com
// Source: CodeLifter.com
// Do not remove this header

// Set the message for the alert box
am = "This function is disabled!";

// do not edit below this line
// ===========================
bV = parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
bNS = navigator.appName=="Netscape"
bIE = navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer"

function nrc(e) {
if (bNS && e.which > 1){
alert(am)
return false
} else if (bIE && (event.button >1)) {
alert(am)
return false;
}
}

document.onmousedown = nrc;
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
if (bNS && bV<5) window.onmousedown = nrc;

</script>

================================================== ==========

I understand your point...but there is no reason to right mouse click on
my
site...

Plenty of reasons. In my browser I can...
navigate
print
save the page
view source
bookmark the page
copy
paste
access umpteen options via all my plug-ins

So, your point isn't valid.

is there a better
way?....and yes...I know it does not stop the file from being downloaded
to the
person that knows how to go around it...but to the average person, it
would work

The average person isn't going to actually steal your images and cost you
anything.

-Darrel

I have seen several sites that when you right mouse (PC), you get a cute
phrase
and it stops you from being able to save it to your hard disk...

I sure would appreciate a direction of programming...or what ever it
needs to
create that on my photo work!

Thanks in advance!

Javascript easily fixes being able to right click.

And in one click I can turn off annoying javascript like this.

And
contrary, i've never heard of it being 'rude' to prevent users from
downloading
pictures-

The reason you've never heard that is because there's simply no way to do
that to begin with.

You probably have heard that it's rude to change the end-user's browser
functionality.

The way to protect photographic work is quite simple...copyright law. Unless
you are the RIAA or MPAA with hordes of bribing lobbyists, any technological
solution is simply pointless and, usually, full of detriments.

-Darrel

I have a little "Javascript" checkbox in my toolbar. It will take me less
than 2 seconds to disable javascript and get your photos, if I want them. It
also takes about that long to do a screen shot of your page. It would take a
tad longer to go into my browser's cache and find it.

My right click button lets me do this: "back" "forward" "reload" "stop"
"bookmark this page" "save page" "send page" "view page source" "view page
info" "disable image animations" "disable images" "disable java" "disable
javascript" "view cookie information" "clear cache" "mark all links visited"
"mark all links unvisited" "zoom in" "zoom out" -- among other things. You
still think there is NO reason for anyone to right-click on your page?

Go ahead. Implement your right-click-blocking javascript. Then come back and
post the URL where you're using it, and several dozen of us could send you
your image via e-mail within 5 minutes.

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Sonjay

On 11/19/04 4:07 PM, "drmwvr" wrote:

Thierry

I understand your point...but there is no reason to right mouse click on my
site...except to download the photos...so...having said that, is there a
better
way?....and yes...I know it does not stop the file from being downloaded to
the
person that knows how to go around it...but to the average person, it would
work

drmwvr wrote:

Thierry
I understand your point...but there is no reason to right mouse
click on my site...except to download the photos...so...having said

You never know. I right-click a lot. Mainly to open an URI in a new window,
but I have also add-ons for IE and FF that stuff my context-menu with a long
list of options. Without mentionning another custom menu that I can access
trhrough the special setting of my mouse software.

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