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Re: protect images from download

From: Errol Sayre <email@hidden>

I have to (thirty)second the thoughts of others in that this provides
you no "protection" in that it only frustrates power users and barely
keeps "honest people honest".

I would like to go even further. There is a cost of trying to do such things to a medium that was specifically designed to be open and free.

1: It may not work properly on all browsers. This may frustrate users who get unexpected results, and rather than try to puzzle them out, will simply go on to a different, simpler website.

2: Future changes in browsers may cause you increased maintenance. OS upgrades may simply stop your protection, or worse, could make the images being protected invisible or causing unexpected side-effects.

3: You are spending time right now doing something that may have no more life than that of the next OS upgrade, and has no more security than typing in a shell command.

Keep it simple. You can't really stop them. It doesn't take much sophistication to do wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget) from a shell and have all those unprotected images downloaded into a nice little folder, without regard for javascript or whatever.

You're probably better off paying a scanning service (such as Digimarc) to find illegal use of your images on the web.

:::: Nothing will replace what we are burning up quickly now. Every possible replacement has problems which have received little publicity. -- Dr. Kenneth Watt ::::
:::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::



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