Image theft

Christopherusly · 20.10.2004, 15:23

You spend a lot of time working on graphics for your site, whether it be your logo, any component images or in my case, photographs of a "product". You do not wish for persons to be able to easily right click and take that image, ok you have get arounds such as the floating image tool bar in IE, or you just save the webpage you are visiting then raid the /image directory.

Wouldn't it be great if there was an option within mambo, either as part of the core, or as a mambot, which specifically prevented users from saving your image files ?

What do you think ??

The javascript to do this go as follows..

Code:

<!-- Start of no right click script --><script language="JavaScript">

// No rightclick script.

var message="On this page you can't right-click in Windows?"; // Put your message for the alert box between the quotes.

// Don't edit below!

function click(e) {

if (document.all) {

if (event.button == 2) {

alert(message);

return false;

}

}

if (document.layers) {

if (e.which == 3) {

alert(message);

return false;

}

}

}

if (document.layers) {

document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);

}

document.onmousedown=click;

</script>

zorkhh · 20.10.2004, 16:05

Hi,

Javascript is very easy to switch off - and then your pictures are easy to copy.

I usually use a combination of tricks (e.g. picture as background and a transparent gif over the picture, javascript, ...). But even this won't help too much, if the user comes with firefox and uses the "Page Info", where he can save all media directly from the menu.

All you can do is to make it as hard as possible to get the images. If someone wants to have them, he'll get them...

ZorkHH

stingrey · 20.10.2004, 16:07

Personally I hate sites that attempt to limit my browsing with such restrictions.

Also you can around all these blocks anyway.
In Firefox there is an extension that specifically switches of the ability of sites to block you for using right clicking.

Also your example requires javascript, one could get around this by simply switching off javscript on their browser.

The simple answer is that there is no effective way to do what you want.

TJF · 20.10.2004, 16:24

In the worst case scenario they can always just do a Print Screen and paste it into Photoshop...

Try cutting up images into several pieces to discourage right click -> save as thieves.

Christopherusly · 20.10.2004, 16:44

this was just an idea. I shall stick with my embedded watermarks in that case.

cheers guys.