[STOCKPHOTO] Re: Comp question to photographers in general.

[Ed Verkaik]

Protware's product will not "protect" your
images. It will just make it barely harder to get to them.

At least my comment was good for a laugh.
It's too bad you didn't have more faith in your own opinions. I bought their
Enterprise version and I am quite impressed what the program can do.
Obviously, trying to control web content is a monumental task so noone
should expect perfection or absolute results. But deterrence is valuable,
and forcing visitors to contact you to get content is a good thing in my
books. The statement above was one of several that simply were *not true*.
Criticising the efforts of others is a cheap thrill. Given the difficulties
of the task, Protware does a fine job. On images, there is almost no way to
get a usable copy of an image unless you copy the screen (if that's worth
doing) so at least those who might want to harvest large numbers of images
will have to really work at it. The program also protects design code, text
copying, bandwidth theft, site duplicating, and several other forms of
inappropriate access to your website. It also optimizes code.

Ed Verkaik

[Rubens Abboud]

Post by Ed Verkaik

Protware's product will not "protect" your
images. It will just make it barely harder to get to them.

At least my comment was good for a laugh.
The statement above was one of several that simply were *not true*.
Criticising the efforts of others is a cheap thrill.

I made the statement above and I stand by what I said.

Please post a link to a Protware-protected image on your site. Feel
free to use as many of Protware's "encryption" features you wish.

I'll show you some cheap thrills.

Best regards,

Rubens.
http://www.TheImageNation.com
Travel stock photography

[Sean Locke]

Post by Ed Verkaik

Protware's product will not "protect" your
images. It will just make it barely harder to get to them.

At least my comment was good for a laugh.
It's too bad you didn't have more faith in your own opinions. I bought their
Enterprise version and I am quite impressed what the program can do.
Obviously, trying to control web content is a monumental task so noone
should expect perfection or absolute results. But deterrence is valuable,
and forcing visitors to contact you to get content is a good thing in my
books. The statement above was one of several that simply were *not true*.
Criticising the efforts of others is a cheap thrill. Given the

difficulties

Post by Ed Verkaik
of the task, Protware does a fine job. On images, there is almost no way to
get a usable copy of an image unless you copy the screen (if that's worth
doing) so at least those who might want to harvest large numbers of images
will have to really work at it. The program also protects design code, text
copying, bandwidth theft, site duplicating, and several other forms of
inappropriate access to your website. It also optimizes code.
Ed Verkaik

You'd need to actually post your site to the forum, so we can see if
it actually works.

Sean L.