Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina & B.D. offered: TINA said: >>>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. B.D. offered: ---- 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.<<<, Hi folks, My son Scott during the early days of uploading website and photos was ripped off a couple of times. So he went to a system of size on the site so people, editors or clients can see his photography. But it can't be enlarged for any practical purposes. As far as he knows it's worked well without any rip offs! If anyone wants a copy he then generally has it under control and easier for charging, use etc. Here's his opening page, then click on subjects to see more: http://www.sixsixsix.ca/info%20page-2007.htm ted