If you want to "protect" pictures, then watermark them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Russell McMahon
> Sent: 16 February 2005 10:09
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [AD]: Project offer any one interested?
> 
> > >No body is trying to take control of your browser I am
> >>just trying to Protect pictures.
> 
> > The number of times I have wanted to save a picture, only 
> to find the 
> > "save picture" is blocked, so I go probing in the cache to find it, 
> > and save from there, makes me very amused at this attitude.
> 
> > As with most things, there is a way around it ...
> 
> Best approach is probably to place copyright notices on one's 
> site and material (even if the Berne Copyright Convention 
> makes this technically unnecessary). If people copy the 
> photos for their private use one cannot tell and there is 
> relatively little harm done - and odds are that this does 
> constitute "fair use" which is explicitly allowed by law. If 
> however the pictures appear on the web or elsewhere without 
> permission this is in contravention of moral and legal rights 
> and action of one sort or another can be taken. If you cared 
> enough about it you could probably make things uncomfortable 
> for the thief, no matter how big or small they were. Whether 
> it is worth doing so is up to you.
> 
> If you care enough, it is possible to easily save text or 
> other data within your actual pictures which prove that they 
> are yours. This does degrade image quality somewhat and may 
> not survive rescaling etc, depending on the method used. .
> 
> 
>         RM
> 
>                                         Copyright 2005 by 
> Russell McMahon
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
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