Stealing

Carlo,
I recently posted some photos on this site only ot later see them on a car forum. How can this be? I do not want people to be able to snatch my stuff off this site and use it as they wish. I have the no download feature set to not allow this. But it still happened. If they want to post a link for the creme, then by all means do so. Please address this issue at once. And please let me know what I can do to prevent this.
Jeff

can you post the forum link? thanks.

challengerforumz.com

Hello larsen_photo,
Carlo is almost certainly not to blame for this. The truth is that when a photo is visible on your monitor then it’s ON your computer and there are a myriad number of ways to copy it so that it stays there permanently. Mozilla’s Web Developer tool (free download to anyone with Mozilla), to name one, facilitates this. Or you can do a simple print-screen. Even if Carlo had his robots.txt file set properly there are many scrapers, crawlers, and bots that search the web just looking for pictures to download. (That’s why they call them ‘scrapers’.) Just now I removed another one from my own site which is largely pictorial. New ones crop up every day and not all of them obey the on-site directive files that try to restrict their access. Best of luck with this but if you want picture/copyright security the web is not the place for you.
Bob

More for larsen_photo,
I just went to challengerforumz.com and did a ‘View Source’. I then searched for ‘larsen’ and I found this :

<span style=“color:#ACACAC”;">larsenphotoworks

and this page: http://challengerforumz.com/member.php?u=4903 where the commenters there seem to be welcoming you, larsenphoto, to membership.

Looks to me like you’re a member and your number is 4903, n’est ce pas?

Bob

I dont think for even a second that Carlo is responsible in any way shape or form. And I dont think I accused him of anything. All I did was ask if there was a way to prevent this from happening. SO RELAX

…and, by the way, on that same page there’s a back link to larsenphoto.com (which is currently off-line). Now, what was it exactly that made you suspect HDRCreme is the culprit?

Bob

Hello larsen, unfortunately there is no way to disable the picture download from hdrcreme. There are thousands of ways to prevent picture download from a website but there are also many many ways to walk-around these (as rconsoli explained).

Just an information: the “no download” feature is just for the original picture (big size one) you have uploaded, but the resized picture is viewable so also downloadable.

A suggest for you if want to copyright your pictures is the “digital watermark”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking but you get an image quality reduction.

Carlo,
Thanks for the info. I will have to start watermarking stuff I think is important. I dont know who this rconsoli guy is. But he made it seem I was accusing the creme of something, which I was not. And for his info. The creme is the only place I posted these pics untill after I saw them on another site.