How to stop people copying your website pictures

double_d77 · 17-06-2005, 10:42 AM

this is my first time for starting a new thread, please advise if wrong.

I've read through some of the threads on here and have seen people talking about not sending people pictures incase they ge copied by 'fakers' to sell there products online. I've found some html code that stops this. I know it might not work in the forum but it works on websites.

I'm not clued up on html, but a friend gave it me and now I hope I can help you guys and girls out as this forum has helped me!!

To stop the windows help bar them comes up when you hover? over pictures this is the bar that comes up with 'save, print, email etc. type this code into the body of your html or before your img.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar"CONTENT="no">

Thats ok but there is also the right click and 'save picture as' path to copying pictures from websites. To stop this happening --
<BODY bgcolor="black"oncontextmenu="return false"ondragstart="return false"onselectstart="return false">

As I said my friend gave me this so if your clued up on html(which I'm not!) then this might help. I've done a basic website with the help of a tutorial and it worked for my family pictures that I put on the site(the site is just on my hard drive).

One last thing I'd like to add though is it's no point in using this code unless you already own or have taken the pictures yourself, as to me it defeats the object of it and it doesn't help me in starting my business as I'm unsure if I'm buying gen products from people.

Any way hope this helps guys and girls
If you could let me know tho then that would be good.
Also any info on gen 100% auth. designer labels at good prices would be really, really GOOD

**Pete** · 17-06-2005, 01:04 PM

Actually all those sort of 'solutions" do is piss people off and drive them from your site. And anyone who understands the Internet can still copy your pictures.

The fact is that they are already in your computer in the Temporary Internet Files. You can go there and save them to another directory on you hard drive.

After all, sharing is the Internet way.

Best way to prevent copying is to "brand" them, as is often seen on ebay. Put your name across them, that should make them way less valuable to others.

And where did you get them from? Are you talking about original pictures, or something you may have borrowed yourself? Do you have written permission to use them if they are not your original works?

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double_d77 · 17-06-2005, 02:14 PM

Pete,
Don't mean to pee people off and wouldn't want people to leave my site(when it's done!), but to me why would customers run from my site because they can't copy the pictures. To me there not customers if all they want is pictures. It was a good point tho. On the flip side it would deter the people who don't sell original products from visting your site as they can't get the pics they need to sell their stuff. Which seems at the moment the method some are using is drop shipping so they wouldn't have any products to take their own pictures thus making them the copyright holder for the picture (branding can then be used) once it's taken. As long as there is a disclaimer for the product if you don't have full re-sell rights for the logo/image then I don't see a major problem in doing it.

You also state that the internet is for sharing and I totally agree with that, thats why I'm here in a forum sharing information and opinions. But in my opinion when people are trying to set up or build a business up that sells 100% Genuine/Authentic stock then you don't want to share the images that you create for your site for somebody who is selling less than 100% Genuine/Authentic to use and under cut your price at the same time thus giving you the possiblity of losing sales, or worse your business.

Cheers
Double_d77

**MustHaveMobiles** · 17-06-2005, 03:58 PM

You will never be able to stop people intent on stealing your images, anti right click scripts etc can be defeated using one other key!!! Also as stated is easy to rip them from temp files..

The intention is to stop the more casual theft for use in auction sites/scams etc and I have an interesting little bit of code : Image Replacer that can be used as a simple deterent but like everything it will not stop the determined.

Take a look and see what you think, its free for re use as is all the info that I post on here and my site

HTH,

Mike

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Last edited by MustHaveMobiles; 17-06-2005 at 04:02 PM.

**Pete** · 17-06-2005, 11:07 PM

DoubleD,

If all you were disabling was the right click "copy" many would understand. But when you disable the right click you are disabling all of the included functions, which may get folks mad.

Check this out - http://www.hypergurl.com/norightclick.html

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**MustHaveMobiles** · 17-06-2005, 11:13 PM

Disabling a right click is pointless. It can be re-enabled with one click by anyone...here's how....hold the left button down over the image when you click the right button and the image is yours.

This is not top secret knowledge and i have posted it to make people aware that a simple right click script will not stop them, hence the code I use.

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Last edited by MustHaveMobiles; 17-06-2005 at 11:18 PM.

double_d77 · 18-06-2005, 03:34 PM

Pete & MUSTHAVEMOBILES,

Thanks for the links there are both very good. Albeit that with my knowledge of codes etc they are well over my head!! lol

But if it's ok may come to you for advice when my site is done?

cheers again guys
Dave

**MustHaveMobiles** · 18-06-2005, 03:44 PM

Dave,

Quote:

Albeit that with my knowledge of codes etc they are well over my head!!

No issues just ask away, I think I help people

. Some may disagree though :mad:

Mike

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MartinD · 18-06-2005, 10:12 PM

As pointed out it's not possible to stop someone stealing the image, the best way is to Digitally WaterMark/Brand the images with your web address.

And lets be honest, if a faker doesn't get the image from you, there's a million other sites and it's not hard to request images from the manufacturer too.

The only answer is if you value it and don't want it copied don't put it on a Web Server.

Martin

**MustHaveMobiles** · 18-06-2005, 10:43 PM

Watermarking is not foolproof, it can be removed with the correct software...albeit high end stuff (there was a version just recently available on a certain bit torrent site, with over 2000 downloads!)

Mike

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