Disabling right click will not stop any of the ones you mention from using your pix if they so choose.
So, what's your point? On the other hand, disbaling right click is an irritant... it stops me from doing a whole lot of things easily... like, opening in new window... like e-mailing the page or link to someone i think might find it interesting... like... the list goes on... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 4:52 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Disabling right-click, etc. (was: Web home page writing software) > It has to be said that most were from school > children using the images for their homework! A majority of the requests for permission that I get on my site are from schoolkids; analysis of my logs indicates that they probably represent only a minority of visitors, but they seem to be more honest, or someone else is compelling them to be more honest (by insisting that they get permission for photos used, or whatever). Unfortunately that doesn't bring in any money (I routinely grant permission for free to students, unless they are preparing something for publication), but it's nice to know that at least someone is following the rules. Others often ask for permission and expect it for free; I usually meet that expectation if it is non-profit and non-commercial, but I'm surprised when people running Web sites for profit or thick with advertising expect me to give my images away for free. Sorry, but "exposure" on their little sites does not pay my bills, and with up to 200,000 visitors a month on my own site, exposure is already not bad. Worse yet are corporate customers who obviously do have substantial budgets and nevertheless want everything for free; today I just turn them down if they can't pony up with the cash. There are probably a lot of people stealing my images, including things like porn sites (one such incident having been pointed out to me), although I'm not sure why a porn site would be interested in pictures of Paris. There are probably countless personal and business Web sites using my images without permission. My only consolation is that the images on the site are still only pale shadows of the original scans, although they are vastly better than the junk that a lot of other people put on their sites (I don't believe in blurry, postage-stamp sized images). On rare occasions, I actually license images at a fair price to honest clients through the site. That is always a pleasant surprise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.377 / Virus Database: 211 - Release Date: 15/07/2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body