Disable Scripts

[Tyskie]

Hi all!

This is gonna sound lazy but believe me if I'd do it differently if I could!

Having been messed around by two different "encryption software developers" and left wondering if I'll ever get my money back I am pressed for time to complete my website and get it online.

It is finished but there is the issue of preventing people from (for whatever reason) 'stealing' the photos that will appear on that site in every way.

This is where I need help, which would be very much appreciated. I have looked as best I can around the forums and the CSS Library for a solution to no avail (maybe because I'm new to all of this...).

I fell in love with your silent disable right-click script when I saw it - it was just a case of copying and pasting it into the code and hey presto! It does what it says on the tin! I have referred a few people to this site since then.

This must be basic stuff to you guys but what I also need are scripts that disable print screen (clipboard), disable printing of the page and whatever else is necessary to protect images on my website.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[djr33]

We have several many-page threads going on the subject of protecting images. The answer is that it cannot be done.

There are an incredible number of ways to get around it and even if all else fails, a screen capture will do this.

Anyone actually stealing your photos will know how to get around this. The general public may not be able to, but either they would not try or they would just be doing it for an innocent reason, like for a school project, etc.

The only thing you will be able to do is make it hard for the people who do not know what they are doing to steal them, but it won't be hard for anyone who does know what they are doing to steal anything from your page.

If you send it to the visitor, they can save it. The end. In fact, anything sent IS saved to the computer, and that is from where it is loaded in the first place. (Temporary Internet Files, etc.)

[dj30324]

You know the best way to Protect your image is to insert it in to a Locked Flash, but then again, i am not 100% Sure if its possible to hack a locked flash and get around it.

[Medyman]

there is a way to get around EVERYTHING. If people hack into bank accounts and such, I doubt a locked flash is much of a problem. I'm pretty sure Flash decompilers will do the trick.

[djr33]

Haha. Yeah.

1. Press prnt+scrn.
2. Paste.

(And there are other ways around it, such as finding the flash source file and decompiling it, or opening the flash file in quicktime, edit>copy, then pasting.)


Not to mention that it's ridiculous to require the flash plugin for all visitors, just to limit a few more people from being able to save it. How silly.

[jscheuer1]

Copyright law protects your original material (assuming it has any intrinsic value), including images.

And, as a matter of courtesy, most ISPs will remove material copied from your site if you request that they do so.

All this other stuff is just a rat chasing its tail at best, and often results in rip off 'encryption' schemes and/or code that renders your site inaccessible or with limited accessibility.

This is not to mention the potential conflicts with useful things that protection schemes can cause.

[Tyskie]

Well thanks for the info.

And yeah I WAS basically trying to make it hard for people that don't know what they're doing, because that's better than nothing, right? Say I was going to make money thanks to my site, what's better, a 10% loss in profits or a 50% loss in profits? (assuming 10% of people viewing my site were experts and 40% 'didn't know what they were doing' - I just made those figures up)

All I need is for someone to point me in the direction of some scripts not unlike the 'silent disable right mouse click' one that prevent print screen (disable clipboard?) and printing the page, at the very least, or make them, if possible.

That would be great.

If that is not possible then thanks anyway!

And don't get me wrong, I'd like to learn to code so as to be that bit more independent, but right now I need a quick fix...

Oh and thanks jscheuer1, regarding ISPs removing material, I'll bear that in mind!

[mwinter]

And yeah I WAS basically trying to make it hard for people that don't know what they're doing, because that's better than nothing, right?

Probably not. The vast majority of those that don't know what they're doing won't even try to take your content.

Say I was going to make money thanks to my site, what's better, a 10% loss in profits or a 50% loss in profits?

If you are trying to make a profit, you shouldn't put content on your site at a quality that makes it a substitute for the purchased item.

[boogyman]

If you are trying to make a profit, you shouldn't put content on your site at a quality that makes it a substitute for the purchased item

he is very right. I just did some work for a panoramic photographer and he wanted to have some of his work up on the site as samples, but he had the image up there with full resolution. I helped him with cutting back on the resolution a little bit and I showed him how to make a watermark so that any persons attempting to steal the samples would need to go through 3 red dots @ 40% opacity per inch on a image that if displayed in full would be about 1000 - 1500 pixels wide.

as others have said anything that you can put up on the web is subject to rip-off, but the watermark is one of those that do steer off some novice rippers.

[jscheuer1]

And yeah I WAS basically trying to make it hard for people that don't know what they're doing, because that's better than nothing, right?

This outlook still posits that these schemes work very well while ignoring the limitations that they put on the accessibility of your site as well as your options for adding truly beneficial DHTML code to your pages.

If money is involved and someone who has copied your material has in any significant way cut into your legitimate revenue, copyright law will likely reward you quite handsomely.

Mike is so right when he says that you shouldn't put anything on the web that you are selling, at least not in a form that is an adequate substitute for the item itself.

Images may be reduced in resolution. Text or code may be shown only as snippets. You can advertise without giving away the store and without crippling your site.