What is the best way to protect images?

IntoTheLight Level 1

July 25, 2016, 7:17 am

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What is the best way to protect images?

I was wondering what’s the best and effective way to protect images from being stolen, i mean to protect them with something better than a simple text on it like “© Copyright procoder 2016” because we all know that sometimes copyright text can be easily removed. I’m talking about online images in generally, do you use or have you used anything else to protect your images?

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Webguy2024

I use Cloudflare which offers hot link protection. This protects your images from off-site linking. This is one step for one problem. Copyright issues is a whole other issue that gets into dmca, take down procedures. This is a total pain and can take too much time to get anywhere. Depending on the country trying to do a dmca sometimes it isn't worth the massive effort.

9 years ago

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Lynne

Oh nice, I've never heard of Cloudflare before Webguy2024. How exactly does this work?

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Webguy2024

Wow, this is a big question! Below are some links for your review. This will be better than me trying to explain everything, way too much info and I don't know where to begin.

Below is a quick example of what I do with cloudflare to make my content available worldwide and speed up delivery of the pages, (less hops from data center to data center)

http://www.limostars.com (just a domain I have sitting around so, I mask and a 301 redirect with my registrar).

The content of the site goes out to the CDN, content delivery network, worldwide.
see this link: https://www.cloudflare.com/features-cdn/

Overview:
https://www.cloudflare.com/overview/

9 years ago

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Cristian

I used a custom watermark, that's about all that you can do in my opinion. Once something is only is impossible to prevent piracy, people will eventually find a way.
I also don't mind, I'm not like an artist to value my work...

9 years ago

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MendasDigital

Any protection you can put in place someone can circumvent. After all, in order for a visitor to view the image, you have to give them a copy some way or another, and once it's on their computer, it's under their control. Also alot of the time copy protection measures make the user experience worse, something to think about.

Presently I do not host any images. However, hypothetically if I wanted to make it difficult for someone to save copies of my images, I would probably try to do something like:

- Split the image into pieces. 27 perhaps?
- Use non-descriptive file names (eg: a salted hash) on the pieces so the order isn't discoverable by examining soley the file names.
- Serve the image pieces in the wrong order, use an external javascript file to reorder correctly on mouse over and disorder it again on mouse out.
- Place transparent divs over each image piece, and darken 3 under the mouse on mouse over using the external javascript file.
- Watermark images with my site name.

But I'm not an expert on image protection, or webdesign.

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Corzhens

I have read in one discussion about Blockai which is a copyright system that you can register with. The registered images will have a certificate of copyright to prove that you are the owner of such image or images. I have checked on the website and it is now named Binded and not Blocki anymore. And the service is free according to the information in the inner webpages. I hope that helps because I am also availing of its free service to protect our pictures.

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What is the best way to protect images?

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