[REBOL] Re: Protecting web images : Rebol/flash , other ?
From: oliva:david:seznam:cz at: 26-Aug-2002 14:38
Hello jose,
Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 1:36:23 AM, you wrote:
j> Any ideas on how to protect a copyrighted image from
j> web stealing ?
j> Can I embed the image in Flash via the Rebol/Flash
j> dialect and ensure the images can not be copied by web
j> users ?
If you do that, users will not be able to save it using right-click
so some small protection there is, but they always will be able to
print-screen....
... but that's much more work to do.... some people will not be able to
run some sort of bots to download tons of images automatically (as I
did one time:-)
so my conclusion:
+ embeding images in flash gives you some protection.
- some people without flash pluggin will not be able to see them
+ you may play with some effects (I can imagin some shapes (lines,
dots, oldmovies-type-of-effect?) moving across the image so it will be
much more difficult to use it by print-screening)....
+ you can make some slide shows with image preloaders etc.
- Rebol/flash dialect is quite slow while converting bitslossless
images (I don't have /Pro to play with some libraries support) it's usefull
only with basic JPGs - it's quite simple to restore the image using
some type of SWF disassembler)
