Client wants "uncopyable images" on website [closed]

Question

I need a method to make the product images on a website "uncopyable" - not be able drag and drop them onto desktop or right click and save.

They also need to be links and are in a scrolling javascript viewer (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/stepcarousel.htm)

Any ideas?

Thanks, Steph

Answer 1

If you don't want people to copy images don't put them on a website. Nothing stops people taking screen captures, not to mention disabling JavaScript, or viewing your the HTML source to find image locations.

The best you can do is put watermarks on them, to make it clear where they're from.

Answer 2

Forget it. You can disable right click and save and do a ton of other tricks (e.g. use them in a background image), but a simple screen shot will render them useless.

I'd try to convince the client that it is impossible to achieve, and that protecting their copyright should be done by, say, frequently surfing the web for any infrigements and, maybe, adding a watermark to the images shown.

Answer 3

In order to SEE an image, it has to be on their computer. And if it's on their computer, they can find a way to get it.

Answer 4

There's a few ways to emulate this, but it's not possible to totally stop users from downloading images.

You can:

• Disable right click with javascript
• Overlay a transparent gif or png over the image (flickr does this)
• Set the image as a background image of a container, whose width and height are equal to that of the image.