Right Click Protection

Candid Arts

So I have right click protection on all of my photos. My aunt was able to Right Click>Save As and actually saved a couple of photos. She tried it with 10 photos from a wedding I shot, and two of them saved where as the other 8 were blank. She did the same with a photo from a family gathering a month or so back as well. As it is just my aunt, I don't mind so much, but if this is able to be done in the future, I'd be quite worried about that.

I haven't confirmed the size of the photos she downloaded yet (pixel# x pixel#), but she said she had them printed to a 4x6 just fine. The fact that she was able to download them period worries me. Now I've gone through the gallery and randomly selected photos and Right Clicked them, all of which had my little message pop up and I was not able to Save As. So I don't quite know what is happening.

Anyways, the gallery can be found here.

Thanks for any help.

*UPDATE* Just a little update, here is what my aunt said she did to download the couple photos:"I went back to the site, at the "your shopping cart" page, if you right click your selected photos there, the two of Jacki give the file name of:" toolthumbs", all the rest of the photos say: "spacer" as the file name."

I tried doing this, and it didn't work for me. Soo...not sure what's happening.

denisegoldberg

Right click protection isn't really protection. It is easily circumvented.

See http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2008/07/04/right-click-protection-and-image-security/.

It might be better if the feature had a different name.

--- Denise

Andy

Candid Arts wrote:

all the rest of the photos say: "spacer" as the file name."

I tried doing this, and it didn't work for me. Soo...not sure what's happening.

she saved 'spacer.gif' Try it.

Candid Arts

When I Right Click on the photo in the shopping cart, this is all I get:

Open Link in New Window
Open Link in New Tab
Bookmark this Link
Save This Link As...
Send This Link...
Copy Link Location
Properties

jfriend

Keep in mind that right-click protection only protects you from people who really don't know much and only know how to use the right-click menu. There are many other ways to get a copy of any image that you display on the web (from your cache, URL manipulation, the public API, etc...). If it can be displayed in the browser, then it can be saved to one's hard disk. That's just the nature of the web. Various obstacles can be presented to make it not quite so easy (Smugmug's right-click protection is one such obstacle), but there are always ways around those.

Real protection from illicit copying of printable sizes comes only from one or more of the following:

• Watermarking
• Password protecting
• Limiting the size that can be displayed on the web

Candid Arts

Andy wrote:

she saved 'spacer.gif' Try it.

And this is a large enough file to print to a 4x6 clearly?