Programming HTML--Microsoft Front Page

[Jonathan Varjabedian]

I have set up a web site using Microsoft Front Page, which was fairly easy. However, I want to put a few pictures on the site, and make it so that these photographs cannot be downloaded. Is this possible? Does anybody know how to do this? I am not all that swift with computer lingo, so please try to make it easy!

Thanks a lot

Jonathan Varjabedian

www.efkere.com

[Garo]

You need to use either JavaScript to disble save picture feature of the browser or CGI script to hide the pictures' location. This way you can make it hard to save but still not impossible. If someone can see the picture on his monitor he can save it using another trick - capturing the screen into a file and then taking out the photo from there.

Why do you want to protect them?

[Jonathan Varjabedian]

ProjectSAVE in Watertown was kind enough to let me use a few of their images, provided that they can't be downloaded. Which, it seems, is impossible.

I guess I just won't be able to post their pictures.

Personally, I like it when my photos are downloaded.

Thanks for your help

Jonathan Varjabedian

[Garo]

Put the code below in the page you want to protect and it'll disable the mouse's right click, which people use to open the menu for saving the picture.

This is enough to protect the images from most of the users.

Just copy and paste this code into your page's source code before the head > tag.

 

 

[ March 16, 2002, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Garo ]

[bellthecat]

Jonathan - projectSAVE don't actually own the copyright to most of the images they have in their collection, so having them requesting that they cannot be further copied is a little bit unfair, to put it mildly! (And I'm sure the people who donate photos to projectSAVE would be a bit concerned at such restrictions placed on the valid use of their photographs). I'd ask them again, forcefully.

 

You can get around the disabled mouse right click by just pressing the return key at the same time as clicking the mouse button.

[Jonathan Varjabedian]

Thank Garo, Steve.

You made it pretty easy for me, Garo. Is there any way I could edit that so that just a single picture could not be downloaded, rather than the whole page?

Steve, I agree with you, but right now I am just grateful to be able to see them. Personally, I think this type of material needs to get out there as much as possible.

[Antranig]

For anyone who is determined enough to "have" the pictures you're posting...there is always the way to get it ...

If you can see the picture on your monitor...you can get it...

[Sip]

If you can see it on the monitor, you already got it

 

There is currently no way to fully protect digital intelectual property (like audio, image, video). Anyone who asks for it, probably doesn't know! It is so funny to see these music industry people trying to force the spending of millions of dollars to develop copy protection schemes for musc!!! They don't seem to understand that if a human can "hear" music, that human can use ANY recording device to record the music to any format he or she wants. Unfortunately, the cost is going to end up hitting the consumer's pockets. Same thing applies to images.

 

However, what you CAN do (the theory is very sound at the moment) is WATERMARKING. This way, you can prove in court that something is yours (like an image). But watermarking doesn't prevent from copying.

 

About projectSAVE (I don't know about them) ... You should just do something really simple so if they ask, you'll say you did your best. Don't worry about their rediculous request !!!

 

Oh and on most web pages that don't let you right-click and save images, if you just save the page using the save command in the file menu, Internet explorer will save ALL the files including images ... I would say if you don't have to, don't bother with the right-click disable thing. It just aggrevates your users

[Garo]

Well if you want to dig into the HTML source then here's a solution for you.

Insert this code before < /head> tag in the pages.

Then add this

to your tag. It'll look like this

This will protect only all the images on the page from right click. But if you allow them to view the source of the page (by right clicking outside of a picture area) they can just get the image location from the source code and get the image by typing its URL in the address bar.

[bellthecat]

You could also use more apropriate text in the alert box. Rather than "Right click is disabled" you could say something like "photograph supplied by ProjectSAVE - further reproduction is forbidden" or whatever text would best please/appease ProjectSAVE.