Flickr Protecting Photos from Download?

Thu, 04 May 2006 03:46:54 GMT

Rich Ziade: A friend of mine pointed me to this oddity. If you visit a Flickr page (for example this one) and try to save the displayed image either by dragging it to your desktop or right mouse-clicking "Save Image As...", the downloaded image isn't there.

http://www.basement.org/archives/2006/04/is_flickr_protecting_photos_fr.html

Source: HotLinks Categories: flickr, photos

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Thu, 04 May 2006 12:49:42 GMT

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They're overlaying the real image with a 1x1 image.  Take a look at the source:

<img src="http://static.flickr.com/54/128337720_f5600744f4.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="348" height="500" onload="show_notes_initially()">

<img style="position:relative; top:-502px; margin-bottom:-502px; display:block;" src="/images/spaceball.gif" alt="" width="348" height="500">

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:27:43 GMT

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please could you NOT refer to my image? I am sorry but I really don't like that you blog my photo since I have my Flickr settings with no blogging allowed. Thank you

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:17:14 GMT

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You must be stupid. Thank you.

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:33:49 GMT

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is there a way of doing this to protect your photos on facebook?