IeuanJ - 9:51 am on Jan 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

You can't prevent people taking them.

If a user browses your site and sees a picture, IT IS ALEADY ON HIS/HER COMPUTER, as it has already been cached, everything viewed in a browser window has been downloaded fully onto the client PC before viewing. So no amount of scripting is going to make any difference.

You have three options then.

1) Live with it, after all you decide to put the pictures out there for anyone to see, complaining about people taking them is like leaving a laod of £10 notes outside on the pavement in the morning and expecting them all to be there when you get home.

2) Don't put your pics online in the first place.

3) Put degraded versions online. This works well if you are selling pictures becasue you can put a low resolution/partial/watermarked picture online and sell the full one. However it doesnt stop the person you sold it to then distributing it.

For the life of me though I can't see why anyone would need to protect their pictures unless they are selling them for some reason.