Re: Question on photo file
- From: "Galen" <galennews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:20:39 -0400
In news:umnVdEteFHA.1040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Shenan Stanley <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> Kevin wrote:
>> Is there a way to protect the photo file on the internet so that
>> it can't be copied?
>
> Galen wrote:
>> No. No matter what it can still be copied - they can easily get it
>> from their temp files if they want it bad enough or use one of the
>> many applications that enable it or even just turn of scripting and
>> head to the site that way.
>
> You missed the most obvious..
>
> "Print Screen" and paste it into the application of their choosing.
>
> :)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
LOL Yeah but most people I hope aren't that lazy. They'd also have to edit
out the browser image/boarder itself and the likes ;) Cropping sure is a
pain when you're as graphics retarded as I am. I can't make, edit, or crop
anything to save my soul. Well, maybe a little, but it takes a few tries.
<g> It would seem to me that the future likely holds some sort of answer
for this where the image will not be cached, the print screen will not work,
and this will be functional in online uploaded files. Of course that will
likely be defeated within 24 hours after being announced and older systems
will still bypass it. The idea is interesting though... I was recently
reading a bunch of material on quantum cyptography (all of which was either
dumbed down to a level where I could grasp the basics or above my head) and
there may indeed be something in there - way in the future - that would be
of use in a project such as this. I imaging that it could handle the
permissions based on the requested user's authentication (guest or above for
instance) and then be able to control the PC in some regards though the idea
as a browser would have to be altered I should think. Something that
automatically closed the "browser" if someone tried to print the screen or
use an application like XNView to grab a screen shot? Something that
functions a lot like today's browsers but with more advanced features. To
think, it'd be the privacy zealots who went off on something like that
probably when in fact it would be just people who were wanting to protect
assets. (Not that I don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy but I
fail to see why someone would want to completely abolish cookies when they
do potentially serve a useful function and are, by themselves, benign. It is
people and sites who share data that make third party cookies potentially
capable of tracking and recording your activity, they cookie by itself is
really pretty harmless and killing them all would prevent people from
remaining logged into useful sites or prevent legitimate tracking to better
optimize sites or sales on a single site. But I digress...)
Anyhow a bit of food for thought and an idea of what may eventually be
plausible in the future for a short while until it's been defeated. People
not respecting IP (Intellectual Property) are sure to want a way to violate
it. It's sad that you can't just put an image online and expect that people
will request permission to use it. Somehow the impression that if it's
uploaded it's free to do with as you please has become a rampant idea and
yet these same people probably wouldn't think that just because they can
window shop they're entitled to enter the store and take any item for free
and keep it. These same people probably wouldn't plagerize a book nor would
they take an unknown artist's work and foist it on other people as their
own. Somewhere the impression that if it's online it's usable (sometimes in
the name of fair use) by them in any way they want has become acceptable. Is
that a statement of society or a statement of the internet culture? Makes me
wonder... I really does...
Galen
--
"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
Sherlock Holmes
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