Protecting images? .htaccess?

[Steve from Mogrify Studio]

Hi!

I have a web client that wants to protect her images from being stolen. I know that BC doesn't give you .htaccess edit ability.

Here are some things I've thought of, I'd love some insight on further protection:

• Javascript disable right click
• Embed metadata to images
• Make a copyright notice explicitly clear and noticeable]

Any other ideas? Anyone have experience with "tracking" stolen images?

[Test Screen Name]

There is no protection, none whatsoever and you MUST make this clear to your client. Disabling right click for example, just means we have to do a screen capture: 10 seconds lost. A good copyright notice/overlay is useful and valuable, but such is the ignorance of people on the web they will simply steal it and post it with the notice on it.

[Test Screen Name]

And htaccess is no protection. All it does is control whether people can see the image, via a password for the site. Once you can see it, you can steal it.

[ripencreative123]

What about disabling right click and then also encode the image url - example

And if you want to prevent screen captures you can overlay an logo/watermark image over the original image as well - example

Brian

[Test Screen Name]

I covered that.

[Liam Dilley]

None, nothing Natta.
Watermark and manage online image use.

It is the web, data is downloaded to your machine and thus saved, even for a short time through cache.

That is why you can see Netflix shows available to be downloaded.