Whats the best way to share images over the internet?

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Doubt it, but Is there a way to share images over the internet without them being hijacked?
That they could be viewed, but not copied, stolen and shared ect.
Have friends who show an image with there copyright name scrolled diagonally across the image, but rather than that way, wondered if there was some way that the 'image and a quote. could be locked up?
thanks p.
 

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If I found one other than you mentioned I would use it, but I have not.
 

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Doubt it, but Is there a way to share images over the internet without them being hijacked?
That they could be viewed, but not copied, stolen and shared ect.
Have friends who show an image with there copyright name scrolled diagonally across the image, but rather than that way, wondered if there was some way that the 'image and a quote. could be locked up?
thanks p.

the © means absolutely nothing without the registration form, and its ez to remove.
screen shots take 3 seconds and removal of the © is about 1 minute..
you might consider adding an unlinked page to your website with the images you want to show
and just give out that url to people you trust and you want to share your work with, everything else is a lost cause...
 

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Is there a way to share images over the internet without them being hijacked? That they could be viewed, but not copied, stolen?
thanks p.

No. There is not.
 

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Doesn't completely stop the stealing but makes it cumbersome and bad resolution one: a video where the image is constantly panned a bit and zoomed around. Human brains can make the "big picture" but for stealing a screen capture makes just a low resolution, maybe a cropped image (if you do the video wisely).
 
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Hmmm Dropbox.. been awhile since used that, so your stating that one cannot copy from Dropbox?
 

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No. Dropbox just makes it less easy for your image to be stolen. It can still be stolen.
 
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If it can be seen on the internet, it can be copied and saved elsewhere.

Best options really are to keep things to 'reasonable' levels of resolution for what is shared, such that you at least have some minor limits on how freely others can edit and work with the end product.
The majority of monitors out there are still 1920x1080, so uploading resolution above and beyond that is probably not really all that useful. Going up to 4k might be tempting, and almost a 'reasonable' choice at times, depending on content and target audience, but at this point 8k and above is just giving other people 'extra pixels to work with' for no real gain.

Attempts to run things like no-right-click scripts will mainly serve to annoy people who may have legitimate and legal reasons to save reference copies of something they've seen, and also serve as a beacon to the typical script-kiddies to come in and bypass your efforts just to 'prove' they're superior in some fashion.
 

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No Dropbox just makes it less easy for your image to be stolen. It can still be stolen.

Correct. However there are ways to encrypt the file..
...or think about this:

My B&W Print Exchange used Dropbox to share scan of a members neg to a dozen members, who then printed to each person's taste, snail mailing fine inkjet prints to organizer who sent the collection back to group along with a copy of the original photographers darkroom print. There was zero loss.

I think the easiest extra-security plus visual excellence trick with Dropbox might be to send beautiful-but-security-modified versions.
 

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Take a photo of your photo. Print it out, and take a photo of it, with the camera at an angle and the photo warped by perspective a bit. It won't stop people from stealing your work, but it does allow people to see you work, and doesn't give potential thieves much to work with.

Though to be honest, it's best to just accept that it'll happen or not put your stuff up online. You can try to do some occasional reverse image searches to see if anyone has stolen them and used them on their websites. But that doesn't prevent them from using them in print ads or on some social media sites like Instagram. You can also try to program your websites in stuff like Flash or Java (Flash isn't widely supported anymore, by the way). They have ways of allowing you to display images without letting them become directly downloadable. Thought that's a lot of work, and it's doesn't stop the screen grabbers.

I work for a print shop and we are ALWAYS getting companies coming to us trying to use stolen material. Some are actually quite large companies who should be able to easily afford paying for these images. When we tell them we can't print it (on the rare occasion we find out), they usually get angry and say something to the effect of "If it's on the internet, it's free for everyone", or "It doesn't matter. They'll never find out". Everything is about money these days, and no one cares about being honest, fair, or damaging their reputation. So until the law enforcement agencies, courts, and the law makers start to take this stuff seriously, it's just going to keep on happening, because the individuals and companies doing the stealing won't stop on their own.
 

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This is a really easy one. Never put a photograph on a computer or the internet. There! Now the photographs cannot be stolen. Glad you asked, aren't you?
 
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to be honest, it's best to just accept that it'll happen or not put your stuff up online.

This IS the bottom line, sadly. Until something changes dramatically in the way the Internet serves image content, these are really your only two choices. Its unlikely this will provide any comfort, but when you consider how many photographs are added to the Internet every day (its currently over 300 MILLION per day), then the odds of your photo even being SEEN, let alone stolen for nefarious purposes is extremely low.
 

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There is no way to steal an analog print over the internet. It is different with digital as the 'original' exists only as an abstraction of 'high' and 'low' with the 'high' and 'low' being manifest as energy states (RAM/ROM) or discrete physical entities (reflections on a disk). There is no 'original' digital image; you can open up you chip and look, there is nothing to see in there.
 
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