RE: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images

think bigger: you SEE the picture, how do you see it? You have apparently downloaded it, whether it's Java or a plain JPEG. To steal it you can implement anything you like, because that picture passed all the way through the wire to your PC. That's my philosophy. A screen-shot is a solution, if you can even prevent it anyhow, you can then just take a photo of your screen or something. As long as you SEE the picture - you are able to steal it. Therefore - no way to do what the original poster tries to. It is not the data in the database which you control on your server, and your server is protected by the firewalls and passwords. That is some staff that goes through the wire to your house. You have it - stealing in this case is just you make sure it remains on your PC in one form or another. That is why my idea was - not trying to hide pictures with any of this unthinkable technologies, but simply add some copyright notice on the image itself. A little signature in the right bottom corner would be enough, and then whoever was planning to steal the image gets a bit disappointed and might go to search for this kind of staff on some other sites instead - takes less time then cleaning up the graphic. Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Aral Balkan [mailto:aral@aralbalkan.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:56 PM To: Maxim Maletsky; rodrigo@shreve.net; php php Subject: Re: [PHP] How to prevent people from downloading images >> When you see an image - you have downloaded it already. There's no way to do what you are trying to. This is not true. If you "wrap" an image in a java applet then the only way to save it to your system would be (as someone else mentioned) to take a screenshot of it. Not knowing anything about Java, if there's a way to know if your applet has focus or not, you should be able to concievably devise an applet that scrambles the picture when it loses focus and somehow traps the print-screen key when it has focus. Perhaps this would counter the print-screen problem too. (But, like I said in a previous post, why do this when you can sue them afterwards!) Aral :) ______________________________ (aral@kismia.com) New Media Producer, Kismia, Inc. (aral@american.edu) Adj. Prof., American University ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net