[Leica] Tina Wrote...

[bd_colen at harvard.edu (B. D. Colen)]

Anybody who posts photos on the internet today without watermarks or
some other identification is just asking for them to be stolen.  It's
getting worse all the time with people assuming that anything posted
on the internet is free for taking and using any way they want.  When
the New York Times actually advices downloading and using other
peoples' photos as decoration, I intend to put big watermarks,
right-click protection, and imbedded metadata in anything I post from now
on.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 

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As has been recently pointed out to me, Tina, right-click protection is
meaningless, because anyone can take a screen shot - same goes for flash
websites, which I used to think offered protection.

The problem with embedding ugly watermarks is that they are ugly and I think
make people less likely to want to look at your photos.

The best protection is to limit image size and dpi such that getting
decent-size prints is pretty much impossible. But otherwise we may have
reached the point where we have to recognize that if we put it up in
cyberspace, it's going to float around cyberspace.

B. D.
www.bdcolenphoto.com