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Blocking art theft from your website!

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Screen shots can still be taken, and the image can still be stolen that way.

BlueFox:
Perhaps one could but  slightly transparent, embossed, text saying who did the artwork, and put it over a small part of the image. that ways, if a theif were to try to remove it, he would also have to remove part of the image, leaving evidence.

AladTheAnthroMeerkat:
Quote (Leonin @ July 10 2004, 10:31 pm)Screen shots can still be taken, and the image can still be stolen that way.
Or they could view the source code after the html page has been covered with a trans. GIF, search for the URL to the image and nab it that way.

WhiteShepherd:
Looking through the source would not help.  A direct link would fail.  It would have to come from a link from a web page on the artists site.  

Now if someone wants to save the image they can (unless other protective measures are taken).  This script prevents "hot linking" your images from another site.

Kataze:
Hmm, what if the site has a directory named, say, "livejournal.com"?  for instance: "http://hotlinkedfiles.com/livejournal.com/astolenjpeg.html"?

I figure this wouldn't work, but I'm just curious and in no way an expert, or even a student of whatever language you use .htaccess with. (CGI?)

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