Right Click Lock?

[Failed_Attempt]

If you want to see IH2 in action, take a look at the Holzheimers site in my sig. I don't have the small images watermarked, but the larger images are.

The problem lies here within....The people who are taking them dont care about the watermark on the photo. I need a way to make it so that they can not get them off the site period....This has to be possible but how hard is it?

[yellow1912]

Think about it this way: the images are displayed on their browsers = the images are already downloaded to their computers already. Can you prevent someone to take something already on their computers? Yes, you just dont have to send them = dont display the pictures at all.
Otherwise, you have to live with it. Go to famous sites like istockphoto etc... can you get the images off? Yes, you can, but they have watermarks on those. Do they disable right click? No they dont, since it makes no sense, and it's annoying.

[afo]

The problem lies here within....The people who are taking them dont care about the watermark on the photo. I need a way to make it so that they can not get them off the site period....This has to be possible but how hard is it?

As far as I know, it's not possible. Lowering the quality might help, but you have to be careful not to lower them too much and make the images too blurry.

[Merlinpa1969]

The problem lies here within....The people who are taking them dont care about the watermark on the photo. I need a way to make it so that they can not get them off the site period....This has to be possible but how hard is it?

Actually if you have the water mark across the MIDDLE of the Large image then it does NO one any good,

make your small images lower quality and smaller size then make your LARGE images in best quality with a water mark,

as to stopping people from taking inages

not possible

and the no right click ONLY works fir IE

FF dosnt care about it

[paulm]

I need a way to make it so that they can not get them off the site period....This has to be possible but how hard is it?

I fully agree with yellow. As soon as you show it to someone a copy is already on their PC, so they have a legitimate copy.

You can make it more difficult (mostly == more annoying) to copy. But in the end they can even take a screen shot, if that is what it takes.

[skipwater]

One way that I do it is slice the image up into sections and then display the slices. How many slices depends on how much time you want the thief to spend putting back together.
But as everyone said if you show it they have it.

Skip

[Failed_Attempt]

can they get in trouble for stealing copyrighted material?

[gjh42]

Of course they can, if you pursue them and make trouble for them. It's not like a traditional criminal case where you report it to the police and they take care of it - you have to be vigilant, ask people to remove stolen images from public display, threaten lawsuits if they don't, etc...

[fairestcape]

In most (civilized) countries, infringement of copyright / intellectual property is a criminal offence, and it is therefore possible for a police investigation to take place... However, it is not considered a major crime, so tends to get a low priority.

But if your intellectual property is being stolen, you should report it to the police - especially if the perpetrators are in your country.

[stevesh]

In the US (semi-civilized), copyright infringement is a tort - a civil matter. Copyright infringement for profit is a federal crime.