Protecting Images

Published by: admin 2009-01-07

Hey all,
Its been a while since I been posting.
I have a major pending contract with a firm specialising in satellite photography.

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I was wondering how I could protect the images from for example a screen grab or something like that.
Would disabling the Print Screen be an option?

Thanks
Wing

Put them in low resolution?

I'm affraid you can't protect your images - everything that comes trough to the users screen can be saved, ripped, recorded etc..

But I would very much like to see the script for disabling "Print Screen" :)

The universally accepted solution for mapping seems to be a small transparent watermark of some kind. That seems to be the best solution.

Why not the low resolution idea? If you're specialty is “high quality,” then a low-quality version wouldn't be any loss… right?

I don't think there is 100% easy to use perfect solution for stopping people stealing imagery and stuff. I'm not really worried about them taking pictures of it as it won't be high quality I assume the light from the screen makes it all fuzzy.

I can tone down the image quality and add a watermark but if they decode my flash file, they can get all the imagery so what is the best solution in this case?

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Well, take a look at this: http://www.protware.com/default.htm

If your images are externally loaded, say, what about some kind of server-side protection?

For example, would it be possible to setup a go between where a php script would check that the requester (SWF) is in the same domain as the images, only then serving up the location of the images.

eta: DoH! That'd potentially protect your source files, but the sodding things could still be cached (can that be overridden?!)

If the end user can see it, hear it, whatever, he can copy it. Fact.
A common but often obtrusive and unpopular solution is to WATERMARK your images.

i haven't read into this... straight from google

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Low quality sounds good. Maybe a slightly less high quality imagery and a transparent watermark maybe 20% transparent. Something non-obtrusive.

Thanks guys.

The problem is that the client wants a site which shows a map interface of highly detailed imagery and these images can sell for lots of money. The client's clients would be able to see these images but if they can just steal them, they wouldn't need to buy the originals.

Any ideas guys?

Best solution is don't worry, imo.

If they want it, they will have it. What is important is that your visitors enjoy your photo's in the way that you intended.

If you lower the quality too much, there would be little (if any) point in showing the pictures.

If you watermark it, do so very carefully. Just beacause it is transparent, does not mean the sodding thing won't be intrusive.

^Were in the Flash 8 forum... you decompile flash 8 swf's. yet...*yet*

^Were in the Flash 8 forum... you decompile flash 8 swf's. yet...

& Plus your swf's are cached into the users computer soon enough, if he opens that folder & decompiles your swf they can access the image.

I dont think theres much you can do. Whats gonna stop the guy whos trying to steal the images from taking out his digital camera and snapping away at the screen?

& Dont even think about disabling the PrtScr button w/ javascript, if the guy is smart enough he'll get so frustrated & eventually turn off javascript on his browser.

if its in a .swf actually have the image kind of transparent itself, that way print screens/shots and stuff have something behind the image.

Okay, I could do some disclaimer that says if you take any images we'll sue your *** till your penniless, but we probably would never find out they had stolen it anyway.
I could try a semi-transparent watermark which is permanent but i'm not sure.