HOW TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DOWNLOADING YOUR ONLINE PHOTOS

Posted by Master
January 13, 2008

This question has been going around for sometime. People post their family of proprietary photos in their personal websites or in their friendster, myspace or facebook accounts and eventually, they find out that those pictures now appear in other people’s work. Is there a way to prevent people from downloading your account? Well, there are ways to make it difficult for people to save your photos but at this point, there is almost no way to fully prevent them from doing so once it has been published online. Let’s examine the ways:

  1. In your website, make sure that your photos cannot be “right clicked” . One way to download photos is to point the mouse on a photo and right click on your mouse or keyboard’s touchpad. If that function is disabled,you’ve just taken out one possibility.

  2. Stamp your photos with watermarks. A watermark could be a logo or name that is embossed right across the photo. The photos in this article is a good example–> “How to tie a tie“. This discourages people from downloading your photos if the intention is to republish it. However, if the plan is to simply use the photo to create a profile of you (stalker), a watermark is ineffective. Besides, those good in photo editing can always patiently take out those watermarks.

  3. Restrict the number of people who can view your photos. In flickr, multiply and other sites, the account holder can limit the number of people who can see their pictures. Permission levels can be edited making sure that only those allowed by the account owner (friends, relatives, etc.) can view the photos.

  4. In your website, write a notice that informs people that your photos are not allowed to downloaded. inform all site viewers that IP addresses of all visitors and especially those who download photos are automatically recorded and criminal prosecution can be expected to follow.

Of course, the most foolproof way to prevent people from downloading your photos is not to post it in any website. Should you find your photos posted in other people’s website, immediately take a screenshot of the site showing your photo (to be used as future evidence) and write the webmaster politely explaining that the photo is yours and that you do not want it published. Should the webmaster decline, you can always file a complaint to the domain host, police authorities, etc..

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