J-Walk Blog had this picture up today by way of introduction to a site called Strange Dolls. Strange indeed, if not something out of a horror movie. I checked it out, and actually many of the dolls are quite attractive. I tried to download one of the photos, only to find that whoever designed the site disabled right-mouse clicking. When you right-click the message below pops up.
Why do people do this? Taking one photograph off a site surely qualifies as fair use, especially since I'm providing information that my readers might find intriguing enough to click through on it. Maybe she'll even make a sale or two -- it's called free advertising.
In any event, defeating right-click blocking is child's play. Here's three or four methods of doing so. As I already had Paint Shop Pro running, I simply screencapped the page, pasted it in and clipped the picture out.
And here it is. Someday you'll thank me for this, Beth Robinson.
Comments (3)
In almost all cases I've seen, Firefox will show the right-click menu after the popup window anyways, so that's also an option.
But the idea of popup dialogs for protection is dumb. Anyone that wants the code/image will find a way, and it only serves to irritate people (especially on accidental clicks).
Posted by Kelvin | November 17, 2005 12:03 AM
Posted on November 17, 2005 00:03
In IE, I just go to View -> Source and copy the URI for the image, paste it into the address bar and copy it from there. (Hypothetically, of course.)
If I were marketing a unique product I would put a watermark with my URI on the images and let people copy away. Turning it into an advertising opportunity makes more sense to me than trying to stop people from doing something that's so easy to get around anyway.
Posted by marybeth | November 18, 2005 12:04 AM
Posted on November 18, 2005 00:04
I guess some creators are slightly "parano".
I have the same issue ,just wanting to show arts and photos with all the links and credits, that's not good enough.
Thanks for addressing this.
Don not ever download any pics at Michael Yon's blog. Michael is a fantastic photographer and a superb journalist and indispensable blogger, but I wish we could post his beautiful photos.
I guess he go ripped off once and now everyone is out!
Posted by Diane | November 27, 2005 8:44 AM
Posted on November 27, 2005 08:44