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How do I prevent people from stealing photos from my website?


I am designing a photography website for a client. The client requested that I make sure no-one "steals" her photos from the website.

As far as I know there is absolutely no way to do this reliably. Obviously disabling right click with JavaScript is very easy to get around.

Even creating the website in Flash does not solve the problem because anyone can just take a screen-shot and easily get anything they can see on the screen.

Short of putting a watermark or logo on each picture, is there any way to make sure no-one takes pictures off the site?


Solution

  • I am pretty sure your only options that do anything for real are watermarks and making sure all the photos are low resolution.

    Clearly if I can see the photo then you have sent me the pixels and I can copy/save them if I want. Not much you can do about that.