What's the possiblities to prevent copy from snapcamera, printscreen, etc?

[goldrays]

http://www.antssoft.com/htmlprotector/index.htm

What about above software for anitcopy website even with printscreen button? Anyone has experienced with it?

 

[ceoyoyo]

It won't work. Different browsers, different platforms, people who can write code... at the best you'll just make your web site unavailable for a significant number of people.

If you don't want people to copy your pictures then don't publish them. If you publish in a magazine are you worried about people clipping the photos? Don't publish high res versions and take it as a compliment if someone grabs your low res web version for their own purposes. A friend of mine once used one of my photos for her MSN icon. What a compliment!

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Robb

 

[hockeynut]

You can't possibly come up with enough methods to stop a determined thief. If they want it, they'll get it. Spending time and money trying to defeat a thief is a waste of time and money. Spend your time and money making life better for your valued customers. You don't have to make life easy for a thief, but don't waste money on gadgets, scripts, products, software, or any other tomfoolery.

Increasing "security" could very easily alienate your legitimate users, and those are the people that keep your business alive.

What you can do is NOT post full size images to a website. Keep the resolution to a minimum, yet high enough to be effective. 640x480, or 800x600 on a web page is probably just fine.

Most people will not steal your work because most people are honest.

Actually, to tell you the truth, most people will not steal your material simply because they aren't interested in your material. I don't mean to insult you, but if you had a large paying client base, you wouldn't be here asking these questions.

Good luck.

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• David Feherty

 

[Ted Kern]

You asked this question in the Open Discussion forum as well. The answer is still the same. There is no way to completely protect your images from people who want to grab them. Even if you could protect from print screen, right click 'save as...', etc, all one has to do generally is go into their internet cache folder and fish the file out of there.

End result is, you're not going to keep anyone from copying your pics if they really want them.

My recommendation is to put them up in a small enough resolution that they can't be used for anything but screen display, and perhaps put watermarks in/on the images to aid you in case someone does decide to take them.

 

[BadtzMaru]

Programs like that encrypt the code, not images or the output (which would be self defeating). They are useful for certain purposes but not what you are looking for.

 

[Tom Long]

You can keep images out of the internet explorer cache but you can't protect them from printscreen capture.

 

[JamesMor]

I agree. You just can't protect them from the print screen function. The honest truth is that if it gets put on the internet, it can be stolen.

James

Programs like that encrypt the code, not images or the output
(which would be self defeating). They are useful for certain
purposes but not what you are looking for.

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[ThinkingMan]

I'm a software engineer.

The advertised software is essentially junk. At best it will obfuscate html, however it offers pretty much no real copy protection for code, let alone images.

Embedding your images in flash will help with right click/save as. But it will only go so far, as someone could still use printscreen to grab them. I've seen some fairly creative methods used to protect images, but none that worked 100% of the time. If you don't want to require a client side plugin you could use server side software, I've seen some creative uses of PHP & the GD library, but even then all it does is make it difficult to steal/copy the images.

The real question is, what are you trying to protect from? People aren't going to do a lot with a 600 pixel image. If you're really concerned just through a big fat watermark over the image. If you vary the opacity/position/size etc. of the watermark, it'll make it fairly hard to remove.