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Protecting Your Images from Piracy - NO Right-Click Menu Option
(posted on 2 May 2014)

Protecting Your Online Images from Piracy via No Right-Click Menu Option

A few weeks ago, we wrote an article about Watermarks and Protecting Your Images.

Geoff and I received several emails from you thanking us for explaining our policy and what we were doing.

However, Geoff got thinking again and decided that it WOULD be possible to offer another option to our artists ...

Our basic assertion then, as it is now, is that such pirating of images is not a loss of revenue because whoever does this probably would not have paid for your artwork.

BUT, it is important that whatever we do to "protect" your images does not detract from the experience for those visitors who just want to view and evaluate your artwork.

As we've said before, we currently do a number of things to help with this issue, including reducing the size and quality of images just enough to only be useful for the specific needs of your website.

That said, we have added a NEW feature (disabled by default) that removes the menu visitors would normally get when they right click on an image.

Generally, on the right-click menu is an option to save the image, i.e. download it, to the visitor's computer.

By enabling this feature, your visitors will no longer be able to use the right-click menu to copy or save images for their own use.

This is by no means a foolproof mechanism to COMPLETELY prevent pirating of images.

But, it is much more difficult to access your online images.

So, this effectively prevents "casual" pirating of images.

You can enable this feature (which disables the menu)by doing the following:

  1. Go to the Advanced page in your Administration Panel
  2. Scroll down to the Images section.
  3. In that section there is a check box with the prompt "Disable web browser right click menu on images (copy protect image)".

    Disable Right-Click Menu on Images
    (click to enlarge)
  4. Click the check box
    (see red arrow above).
  5. Scroll to the top or bottom of the page and click the "Update Advanced Settings" button to save your changes!
  6. Your images will now be more protected.

Once again, we ARE listening to you and trying to make ArtSites a secure and easy platform to use ;-)

If you have any issues with this latest feature or have any other questions, simply let us know!

Thanks again for all your feedback and for working with us on a suitable solution!

Now, go forth and protect your images! ;-)

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