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Securing my content?

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:34 pm
by romeo
Knowing that nothing is 100% secure, what is the best way for me to make sure my pictures, text, and movies are not stolen from users of my site?

I was thinking use REELNETWORKS for Movies as streeming may help
and Maybe a flash program that would accept arguements from script/db to read and display images and text?

I am looking for better ideas, ANY advice is appreciated

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:01 pm
by kettle_drum
1) Watermark the images.
2) Place your name/site on the image.
3) Have all your images generated by a php script, so that you can only view them if the script is called from your site - and then add a mouse over effect to the image, so that it changes - adds "www.mysite.com" ontop of the image in big ugly letters - when the user tries to hover their mouse over it to save it.

Theres not really a way to completly make your content secure as a web page is just html and it just marks up your content. So you can only really make it so annoying for the user to steal your content that its not worth their time.

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:02 pm
by John Cartwright
the mouseover thing is sorta useless..

they can always just save the site ("file>save as") and get the images of your site or they can open the source code and simply get the url

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:11 pm
by kettle_drum
Ahh didnt think of that, the mouse over was just an idea to stop them being able to right click and save it.

Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:14 pm
by John Cartwright
nonetheless it is added protection, it will in fact stop alot of n00bie users :P

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:10 pm
by romeo
stopping newbies i sthe biggest issue...
i was thinking flash, is that not good enough?
i like the generate php ideas

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:56 pm
by tim
anyone can go into the temp or a cached folder and grab the .swf and use any type of image editing program to capture the picture.

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:10 am
by John Cartwright
flash is no good... :P

cough cough "print screen" captures a screenshot...

The bottom line is.. if your selling pictures or whatever watermark them.
If your just afraid of people stealing your designs.. your sort of out of luck.

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:14 am
by Draco_03
???
Capture image actually can capture ANYTHING so why flash should be worse then html (php)?
Flash is as good as html, if not better.

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:04 pm
by hawleyjr
The photographer who photographed my brothers wedding gave him a cd with all of his images on them. The cd contained one exe application on it aprox 200mg. It worked like a slide show but if you went to print screen the application would close. I’m thinking they tied into the window print screen dll...?

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:09 pm
by feyd
For exe's, I've done it using video overlays... print-screen doesn't work on them, as the video overlay is added just before the image is output to the monitor. You can also just disable print-screen ;)

Still using watermarks, both visible and not are very useful.. Using image formats that aren't "standard" also can help if direct access to the image data is possible..