Image Theft - Copyright Protection Issues

Copyright, Image Theft and Bandwidth Stealing Issues

Image theft is becoming an increasing problem on the Victory Seed Web site. Many eBay sellers and even web-based competitors are doing it. This page is intended as a place to compile ideas to test and implement to deter theft.

1. Set the image as a background image and then put a transparent spacer on top. Anyone trying to save the image will only save the spacer.

2. Most effective way: don't put it on the web. Next most effective way: watermark the image.

3. Electronic watermarking and tracking services. [Expensive]

4. htaccess file mods (see link below).

Hotlinking and Bandwidth Stealing

http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html
http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html
http://altlab.com/hotlinkchecker.php
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/