HTML right-click question

drakesteakn · Jan 21, 2005, 05:14 PM

i was wondering if there is a way to keep someone from right-clicking on a picture or music link? i made a art gallery and dont want some of the pictures to be taken. any help?

mkk · Jan 21, 2005, 05:25 PM

I've seen some java scripts that disables the right-click function, but that doesn't really protect the pictures as there are many other ways to get to them anyway. I'd say that if you really do not want people to download your pictures then just don't put them on the web.

drakesteakn · Jan 21, 2005, 05:36 PM

yeah, i understand. i found some java code for no right-click. i will just ask politely for people to not to steal them. it will be up to them to be honest about it. guess this will have to do.

Zelig · Jan 21, 2005, 06:12 PM

You're better off watermarking them, people (or at least me) get annoyed with javascript that interferes with normal browsing.

You know, even without getting any alternate browsers or programs most anti-right-click scripts can be easily bypassed.
Right-click and hold, left click to get rid of annoying message, let go of right click on appropriate place.

Matth · Jan 22, 2005, 10:41 AM

Thanks for that tip, saves me going for my alternate browser on a couple of sites!

The other way to make image downloading difficult, is to dice them - no protection against screengrabbing though.

drakesteakn · Jan 22, 2005, 03:41 PM

thanx, i will proabaly just end up watermarking them, will be the best way to keep my work mine.

Koolaid · Feb 9, 2005, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by drakesteakn

thanx, i will proabaly just end up watermarking them, will be the best way to keep my work mine.

When I worked at paypal I had the same question. I can hold my own with anything having to do with PayPal but I kinda wondered the same thing. All I have to do is create a website and link to your images, now- Not only do I have your images but I am stealing your bandwidth in a way because whenever someone browses my site the images get pulled from yours. You would be able to see this in your server logs if you get that information.

I had an idea to create a program (script) that would log into your server and change the name of all the file names for all your images by using something like an md5 algorithm or something to randomize the name. Then I got let go from PayPal so .. that was kinda the end of that idea since he was more of the coder type than I am. If you can or if you know someone good with Perl or PHP or some other scripting language-- it seems to me that this would be a good program to create. This will of course not keep people from downloading the picture. Instead you may want to use FLASH to keep your images from being downloaded. But if someone linked to a picture from my site and my site kept changing the name of the file then when their page was loaded all they would get is a lil red x .. heeee heee.

Good luck with your image.

BTW no right click does nothing when all you have to do is ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v into front page and save it on my HD.

YAYitsAndrew · Feb 10, 2005, 01:40 AM

If you have control of the server you can disable offsite linking to your images. Putting a watermark is the best way for people to take your images and not remove your name from them. If you want to not allow people to download at all, every javascript method can be defeated. In fact, printscreen will defeat ANYTHING.

You can use something with complete control to display the image such as a java applet or a flash movie, but those are still able to be screenscraped.

You're basically screwed. Watermark your stuff and give away the non watermarks by request/purchase/whatever you have in mind.

Matth · Feb 10, 2005, 12:09 PM

And be sure to implement "the hotlink revenge" - if someone hotlinks your images for, say, an ebay auction.....

Change your pages and rename the images you use, while changing all the hotlinked images appropriately.

As stated, right or wrong, anything you show online could be grabbed and used with or without your consent, so in the end, you have to resort to aggressive watermarking, preview quality images, and maybe one full quality sample - offer it free for personal use.

Another issue, attempted theft and passing off originals, even to the extent of accusing YOU of being the copyright violator....
Some solutions suggested in REC.PHOTO.DIGITAL newgroup (currently under moronic attack by googlegroups abusers, and google are not very responsive to the problem) are:

Never release an uncropped image, and always keep an uncropped original (there must be some extra DETAIL) - then if challenged, you can show the larger area from which it came. By the same token, you should also keep an original "camera fresh" image, and archive it along with the rest from the same session, including the duds.

Other mesures may be needed if you have reason to believe your ownership may be challenged.

redsolar · Feb 10, 2005, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Matth

And be sure to implement "the hotlink revenge" - if someone hotlinks your images for, say, an ebay auction.....

Change your pages and rename the images you use, while changing all the hotlinked images appropriately.

This is pure evil, but hey they deserve it!

md5 · Feb 10, 2005, 02:05 PM

You could always protect your site with annoying scripts like weblock, but they're easy to defeat and you'll only piss off your regular visitors

You could also use .htaccess protection and only allow people coming from your site download stuff

StuRReaL · Feb 18, 2005, 02:03 PM

There isn't really a way to stop people right clicking and saving images as all the methods i've seen can be defeated. In firefox for example you can disable certain javascript commands such and no right click. Best thing to do is a watermark the images, setup some link protection so that only your site has access to them, the only otherway I can think of is to make a flash picture gallery which you can possibly do dynamically from a database although thats mighty tricky