You don't even need to do anything active to get the pictures. Every browser in existence that can display pictures has a cache where pictures are stored.
I can't tell you how many times I trolled through my browser cache in the early days looking for interesting animated .gifs from sites that I had surfed. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:59 -0400, "John Sessoms" <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> > wrote: > >> Some advice I got fairly early in my venture into on-line photography >> sharing - maybe even got it from here for all I know ... >> >> Don't post anything to *any* site on the internet unless you're prepared >> to give it away. Because that's what your doing. >> >> No matter how good the site's security, if someone can see it, they can >> copy it. > > > True, any screen capture utility will work, but even if the image is > larger than the screen resolution, it's possible (at least sometimes) to > download the full size image even if Flickr's right click option has > been disabled. > > I was looking at a Flickr portfolio yesterday (can't remember which now) > where "The owner has disabled downloading of their photos". And indeed > there was no right click "save image as" option available. But there > was a "save page as" option which downloaded the photo nicely into it's > own folder. Maybe there are other configuration options in Flickr that > will prevent this but this particular Flickr user wasn't as protected as > he/she thought they were. > > I'm still trying to decide if I want to sign up for yet another on line > service..... > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
