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Old 07-11-2006, 08:18 PM
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Default Avoiding stolen scans....protect your photos from right-click-copying.

Posted By: Jennifer

Ray & Bob, you're welcome --

In response to vertigo's post about screen capture programs...as I said before, an aggressive scam artist will find a way to steal what he's after, regardless of any safeguards that have been used. From what I understand about screen capture programs, they don't necessarily work on all websites (for instance, those sites using SSL). If someone used a screen capture program to steal a photo scan, they'd have to lift and remove the single photo from the rest of the webpage -- and I'd like to believe that the resultant cutting and pasting would be obvious. Maybe, maybe not. But it would definitely take a bit more time and effort than the right-click-save. (Hopefully, more time and effort than is worth it in their minds). eBay photo scan thieves are a generally lazy, low budget, hit & run group. Blocking the right-click-save function should be enough to deter most of them.

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