Preventing saving webpage

[Marcel Bongers]

Hi,

Is there a script which prevents saving a webpage? This to prevent an illegal download of my work.
I am a photgrapher and busy with setting up a site with my own portfolio.

Thanks for helping out.

[chechu]

NO.
Read this thread:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14403&highlight=click

[jscheuer1]

Hi,

Is there a script which prevents saving a webpage? This to prevent an illegal download of my work.
I am a photgrapher and busy with setting up a site with my own portfolio.

Thanks for helping out.

chechu is right and - There is no such thing as illegal download of your work. After your work has been downloaded, the use it is put to may or may not be legal. The use also may or may not be annoying but, this is a different matter than legality. Even if the use is technically illegal, if there is no substantial real harm to you, it isn't worth worrying about. If there is a substantial real harm to you, you can sue to recover its costs (both financial and otherwise). This last case is more rare than you might think. There are also ways to get folks to stop the use even when there is no real harm, if it annoys you enough. Like contacting their ISP, informing their access provider of the infringement issue at stake. Sometimes, just contacting the person directly is all that is required.

As a photographer, the sensible thing to do would be not to put your work on the web in a form that, when downloaded can be printed out to the high quality required to make it marketable. Images on the web need not be of print quality (and generally should not be, due to bandwidth and disk space considerations) to have that crisp eye catching quality that an image can have. Look into image optimization.

[chechu]

As a photographer, the sensible thing to do would be not to put your work on the web in a form that, when downloaded can be printed out to the high quality required to make it marketable. Images on the web need not be of print quality (and generally should not be, due to bandwidth and disk space considerations) to have that crisp eye catching quality that an image can have. Look into image optimization.

This is indeed the only way to have your work "protected". Otherwise there is nothing you can do. As you could read in the thread, someone copied an artwork from my wife and won a price with it.
Although her work is copyrighted, and so she can legally sue the other, it doesn't make sence that I would sue someone that lives thousands of miles away. What court do I go to, language, law system, etc. It is just not worth it.
So remember: everythinh that you place on the web can be copied and used for other purposes. And there's nothing you can do ... (except if the copier lives in your country).

[boxxertrumps]

DDadmin Should Put this into The Rules

"If its On The Internet, It Can Be Taken.
Reduce Its Quality, Password Protect It, Or Watermark It.
Don't Ask us to Protect Your Content, Because We Cant Help you."

[chechu]

True, because there are a lot of threads regarding protecting, right click, passwords, etc. DD, why not make it an item in the scripts ?