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honus3415The code disabling the right-click is a deterrent but is not a solution for protecting scan ownership.
There is a fairly easy way around the inconvenience of the code disabling the right-click by doing the following:
1) Go to the top of your Internet Explorer window, in which the desired picture is being displayed, to the windows bar listing "File Edit View Favorites Tools Help".
2) Click on "View"
3) In the list of choices under "View" click on "Source" - This will open a notepad window which includes all the code for the page you are viewing. (The internet address for all graphics/scans will be listed somewhere on this page.)
4) In the new notepad window detailing the page code, you can go to the top bar listing "File Edit Format View Help" and click on "Edit"
5) In the list of choices under "Edit" click on "Find..." - This will open a window asking "Find What" with a box. Usually pictures have an extension of "jpg or gif", enter one of these extensions and it will take you down through the page to all spots in the code where the entry occurs. (It may be a bit of a guessing game if you do not understand code.) If you copy the suspect code prior to your "search result find" backwards to and including the "http://www" and paste it in the "address" blank of an explorer window and hit "enter", this will bring up the picture associated with that code. If it is the desired picture you can do your right click and save the picture. If not, go back to your notepad window and use the "Find Next". Continue this process until you find the graphic you're after.
This may seem difficult at first for those unfamiliar with code but with some practice it becomes a very easy way around the annoying "right-click disabled" code. I always suspected those listings using the "right-click-disabled" code had something to hide such as "white on white" keyword spamming and in general just avoided any sellers using this listing tactic.
Editing your scan by printing text such as your name is the best way of protecting one's interest. This would be actually editing your picture and probably would not be easily removable by any software. But as with anything, where there is a will there is a way and the criminal mind never rests.
Good luck and happy copying.
Go Tigers
07-13-2006, 01:48 AM
Avoiding stolen scans....protect your photos from right-click-copying.
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