Wylin Posted:

Maybe he makes animated .gif images, that’s be a little more difficult if you can’t download them directly.

That’s true… but preventing direct downloads is somewhat hard too. I’m trying to think of a way to protect an image from being downloaded that wouldn’t be defeated by a quick skim through the browser cache and I’m not coming up with a lot of ideas. Simple truth is that it has to be downloaded to be viewed.

Maybe if you used something like an embedded video player to serve up the image – then the immediately downloaded part is just the player, not the image/video/animation.

Watermarking would work … that or deciding that if people want to rip off something you already did, they probably wouldn’t have paid for an original work anyway.