[thelist] Protecting Portfolio Images Online

patrick pms at stoutstreet.com
Tue Nov 4 17:08:03 CST 2003


No, there is not a way to do this. Check the archives -- this comes up
quarterly. If it is web-accessible, it is downloadable.
If I am viewing your page in my browser, all of the files are on my hard
drive (in the cache) already.


The watermark is a better idea.

Jono Young wrote:

>I would like to post a bunch of photos, I have taken, on my online
>photography portfolio, and I am wondering if there is a way for me to make
>them non-downloadable.
>
>In other words, I don't want the users/viewers to be able to
>Right(PC)/Control(Mac) Click, drag-and-drop, etc. the images and download
>them to their hard drive.  I can put a water mark in the photos, but I am
>looking for extreme control here.
>
>Is there a way to make the images the user would attempt to download,
>download as another image of my choice?  For example, when the user tries to
>download one of my images, the download would somehow redirect to a fake
>image, or perhaps force the user to download just a spacer.gif file instead?
>
>I think some or all of this may be possible, but perhaps only through my
>ISP...or perhaps not?  Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>  
>



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