Stop piracy advice, please, plus helpful tip

[ssidetv]

Tip first: in IE6, an image toolbar pops up any time a user rolls over an image, enabling the saving or emailing of the image with a LEFT click, thus defeating anyone who has tried to deter piracy with a no-right-click script. If you add <META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;imagetoolbar&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no&quot;> to the HEAD of your page, this disables the feature.

Now the Advice: does anyone know how in DW4 to disable the SAVE function from the FILE menu? We have to guard against theft of our images as they are very useful marketing tools for our competitors, who have no qualms about ripping them off for their own use. We spend a fortune chasing them, and would rather lock 'em up in the first place.

Thanx again!
Nick

 

[natedeia]

I have tried myself to find info about it, 'how to keep sites undownloadable' but have found out that just Flash has given me that power. You can get or create the script that allows people from right clicking, which is for the average joe. So I will subscribe to this thread so I may find out as well, sorry to not be the one.....

 

[Guest_imported]

hi,
Maybe something, maybe nothing.
Any way, i saw somewhere that one can &quot;replace&quot; the standard menu with a javascript and create your own menu i think it was in wsabstract.com or bignosebird.com anyway it was a &quot;cut and paste&quot; thing for anyone to adept etc... goodluck
M.T.Hed

 

[Bentley22]

Yes, there are ways of doing it with javascript, and Flash is the most powerfull option, however, whats to stop them from hitting the print screen button? All they have to do then is a bit of cropping, and they have your image.

 

[ssidetv]

Thanks - I'm still looking but you guys have given me some ideas. As for the Print Screen idea....I don't mind people printing the pictures, it's when they steal them then put them on their own sites (that are after the same clients as us) that I get a bit twitchy. We are the only ones spending large lumps on photography...needless to say we like to hang on to our exclusivity!!
Nick

 

[Bentley22]

Explained: Print Screen - does not send page to printer, takes a 'virtural snapshot' of the screen, and saves it to the clipboard. The user can then open any graphics editor, and paste the image down. Thats what I meant. They can still steal your image, digitally. Another way of stealing the image is to view the source for the page, and figuring out the path name to the file.

Ex:

<img src=&quot;/images/pretty/artwork.jpg&quot;>

at

http://www.myprettypics.com

Simple enough to enter

http://www.myprettypics.com/images/pretty/artwork.jpg

into the toolbar and view the image directly.

Its an unfortunate problem with the web, in that displayed content isn't very secure.

 

[boyfromoz]

There is an extension here that helps

http://www.dreamweaverfever.com/grow/

But in the end there is nothing you can do. Anyone can printscreen, or even easier, use crosshairs which many graphics programs have to mark the area of screen they want to copy and then pinch your piccies.

Only way I've come across is to deface your photos with your name.... but that looks crap.

 

[Cheech]

Even putting your name across images will not stop anyone with a little image manipulation skills to edit it out. Live long and make your kids suffer..