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[Soala]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

If people are going to steal, they're going to steal. Locking away the forum is going to only be an incentive for them to sign up on the forums... and all you need is to subscribe to Graal once(which you need to have a server anyways).

The days of problematic stealing are mainly gone, you rarely see anyone steal stuff anymore and when you do it's not hard to get it taken care of. If you're paranoid with your work Graal isn't the place for you since all you have to do is play to get the graphics.

I guess you're right, but it's not about my work nor about the work being used somewhere else ON GRAAL (can be taken care of really easily).
I guess I'm just too used to security and other stuffs that websites like DeviantART have.

[Demisis_P2P]

What does DeviantART have?
The only effective way that I can think of that you can stop people from saving an image from a website is to load a remote image in a flash object. Those right click blocker scripts that some websites use don't work very well and most of them can be bypassed by just right clicking quickly.

[cyan3]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

What does DeviantART have?
The only effective way that I can think of that you can stop people from saving an image from a website is to load a remote image in a flash object. Those right click blocker scripts that some websites use don't work very well and most of them can be bypassed by just right clicking quickly.

Even if the script worked you could always take a screenshot of the image instead.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

What does DeviantART have?
The only effective way that I can think of that you can stop people from saving an image from a website is to load a remote image in a flash object. Those right click blocker scripts that some websites use don't work very well and most of them can be bypassed by just right clicking quickly.

You can still get it under Window > Activity if you're using Safari, not to mention you can always take a screenshot if you really want it.

"Right-click" blockers are ridiculously stupid.

[Soala]

Watermarks are a small solution to it.

[cyan3]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

You can still get it under Window > Activity if you're using Safari, not to mention you can always take a screenshot if you really want it.

"Right-click" blockers are ridiculously stupid.

Not to mention disabling JavaScript will also stop the script from working.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Soala

Watermarks are a small solution to it.

Then watermark the images you upload to these forums .

[fowlplay4]

Hell I've seen watermarks defeated by clicking view print and the preview completely removed the watermark and displayed the image at full resolution.

[DemonSpawnn]

Sure it can be annoying that someone takes your stuff, But we do need to present graal as if devlopment is happening here..
I can see how blocking off the devlopment forums could cause one of two thoughts to occer, "I'm intersted to see wat this is so I will create an account to see." or the more likely, "It's blocked, I'm too lazy to register and see what this is."

If its open they might think, "Well, All this lack of good devlopment and chat of graal "Dieing" makes graal appear as if its a wasteland, nobody wants to be a part of."
Or Hopefully, "Graal devlopment looks amazing, I want to be a part of it."

In short, we need the world to see Graal as devloping, the more we present the better for the community. Besides, registered users take images just the same.. perhaps we should have a no stealing disclaimer? (doubt that will do much however.)

In short the more we show the better for the community if it gets stolen, meh why care?..

[Soala]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Hell I've seen watermarks defeated by clicking view print and the preview completely removed the watermark and displayed the image at full resolution.

Shouldn't really use website's watermarks then, add your own completely to the image lol.

Oh well, I got my answer now.

[DustyPorViva]

Disabling right click would be dumb, and a nuisance. Also, doubt it's even possible of the forums. Honestly, this is the internet. Stuff gets around, if this worries you then I'm sorry but just don't put it ANYWHERE on the internet.

[Codein]

I think you're being a bit anal about it.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Codein

I think you're being a bit anal about it.

Ditto.

[PowerProNL]

I am more guest then logged in, because I don't know my password, I saved it in a .txt file so I can search it up

[Tigairius]

Might be nice to have a feature to only expose certain text in a post to members only (I know there are plug-ins for this for vbulletin). This way you could password protect your attachments in a zip/rar file and only expose the password to members of the forums.