Image protection in osc

[vinnie@krystal]

Hi can anyone help or advice as to whether images can be protected in osc by using a watermark or similar method to prevent copying of images.

 

Your help and advice would be very much appreciated...thank you

[FIMBLE]

Hi

Have you tried this http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2431 it might be what you are after

Nic

[Guest]

watermarking is definitely one to prevent copying of images.

[FIMBLE]

You can also add hotlinking protection, this will only help if others use the URL to you site though and will not stop them from being taken

Nic

[MrPhil]

If someone is determined to steal images from you, there's nothing that can be done to stop them. As suggested, a watermark as an integral part of the image can discourage this by "ruining" the image for any other use. It needs to be "baked into" the image and not a separate overlay at display, where it could be easily evaded. While you're preparing product images in Photoshop or GIMP would be a good time to take a standard transparent-background watermark image and merge it into each product image. A contribution to create a new image on-the-fly by merging an actual image and a watermark is possible, but remember that this could greatly increase your server load as it's done every time an image is displayed. Finally, you can, as suggested, use "hotlink protection" to stop other sites from stealing your bandwidth to display your images on their site, but it won't stop others from stealing a copy of your image files for use elsewhere.

[vinnie@krystal]

Hi thank you for that i will look into hotlink protection... :thumbsup:

[♥Biancoblu]

Have a look at this thread for hotlink protection.