How do I stop downloading of photos

It seams like I am now starting to get solutions to help reduce unauthorized coping of the photos. I know now that the only real solution at this moment in time is to not show them at all. I don’t wish to do that so all I can do is is reduce coping.

The solution to place a stamp on the photos is a good on but again with photo shop 7 and know how you get get round this one.

The solution to cut the images up works well but again using photo shop 7 and know how you can re-fit them together.

A combination of all that has been suggested will make it harder to copy and in the long run help reduce copying photos.

 

Technically, no copyright law has been violated. This is akin to writing a book and making it available only in your private library and then discovering that someone has "borrowed" a copy without your permission. Sound familiar? Yep, a classic case of theft. While not copyright infringement bandwidth theft is theft and could potentially costs you lots of money.

There are a couple sure fire ways to protect your images:

1. Use the <INVISIBLE> </INVISIBLE> tags around the entire document.
   
2. Use the DONTSTEAL attribute in the <IMG> tag.
   
3. Ftp to your server, select all files and directories, hit "Delete".
   
4. Put every existing copy of every file on floppies, place them in a shoebox and bury them in the backyard. There is another version of this method which involves placing the floppies in a plastic bag and hiding them in a different sort of hole. Both are equally effective.
   
5. Password protect your entire site and make sure no one has the password, not even you.
   
6. Employ a small but fanatically loyal and well-armed band of mercenaries to guard your site.
   
7. Start>Run>format C:\
   
8. Attack dogs, preferably rabid. 

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> will stop the IE image toolbar appearing as previously said.

Just out of interest, you folks do know the easy way to hide images eh? Try this:

What you should remember is that most folk would have no idea how to find a file in source code, if they are determined they will eventually, but there is nothing wrong with making it harder for them.

First thing to do is get rid of any right click type interference, when I come across a site that prevents me from right clicking I go out of my way to see what they are hiding, so remove that stuff and allow them to right click all they want (Right click is a necessary tool when surfing, you should never try to disable it on someones computer anyway, it aint your computer to do so ..)

Next make a table like so:

<table width="250" height="200" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="250" height="200" background="picture_you_want_to_hide.jpg"><img src="clear_gif_file.gif" width="250" height="200"></td>
</tr>
</table>


Anyone right clicking and trying to save the 'picture' above will only get a blank .gif, and most people are so baffled as to why the pictures blank they give up....

Iv'e been using this method for years on certain pictures I 'treasure', and I ain't seen copies anywhere..

Give it a try, its extremely successful for such a simple fix!!