Re: One way to scoopup our images for others site...

At 09:31 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Scarry!

If this sort of unauthorized image copying impacts your livelihood and/or
principals strongly enough, there are actions you can take:

ArtistScope ( http://www.artistscope.com/ ) offers a range of products and
services (including image and site hosting) that prevent almost every type
image copying. The best part is that this protection is largely
transparent to your visitors.

e-Vue ( http://www.e-vue.com/products/imagestudio.cfm ) produces tools to
convert images to the better compressed and more secure MP4 (.vtc) format
(the "pro" version will even translate a whole site). This comes at the
cost of visitors having to download a plug-in.

These solutions both cost time and money.

There are many scripts that can disable casual filching--they're usually
free (except for time) but they won't stop the automatic
image-harvesting. A good explanation and listing of a pair of scripts that
prevent image saving from the browser and direct linking can be found here:
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Graphics/Theft/scripts.html

Finally, there is Digimarc's watermarking and MarcSpider (
http://www.digimarc.com/imaging/prspider.htm ). This won't protect your
images from being yanked, but at least you can track where and how your
images are being used on the Web. This costs money (like a subscription)
as well.

Disclaimer: I don't have any sort of relationship with any of these
companies/sites--just passing along information.

Best Regards,
Chad
paper@separatrix.com
Received on Tue Mar 12 11:30:16 2002