Re: Ideas on how to stop image theft (RE: After the recent site theft...)

I am not sure that this is very good advice.  Because the image is cut into
100 pieces, you now have 100 server transactions for 1 image.  That can
tax(or overpower) your web server (depending on traffic) and take
significantly longer to load.  Imagine having 5 images on your page...500+
server transactions for 1 page?? 

Cutting an image into 2 pieces would make it a pain to grab for so called
'right mouse click' theives.  So perhaps cutting the image is not such a
bad idea, but 2 pixel slices is pretty extreme.

-Michelle




>So make 2 pixel tall slices all the way down the image... If it's a 200 pixel
>tall image that means 100 seperate images assembled into a table. That makes
>it a real pain to grab it down for the casual 'right-mouse click' thieves.
espially
>if you go into the code these apps generate afterwards and make two or three
>of those table cells display not an image; but put that image as the
background
>of that cell... :)



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Michelle Brown
Web Site Specialist
Student Academic Affairs
University of Oregon

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