Re: Attention Paleolife Artists

["DinoData" <fb@dinodata.net>]

Hi Michel,


Nice thought however one can pass it easy by saving the whole page to a
harddisk, than the illustrations are downloaded also.

Regards
Fred Bervoets
fb@dinodata.net
http://www.dinodata.net/


----- Original Message -----
From: "dinotreker" <dinotreker@earthlink.net>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Attention Paleolife Artists


> At 09:49 AM 3/5/01 -0800, David Krentz wrote:
> Danvarner@aol.com wrote:
>  >
>  >     I thought I'd put this on the list since so many list members are
>  > effected or know an artist who's effected. There is an internet pirate
in
>  > Thailand who has ripped-off a number of websites of images of dinosaurs
and
>  > other prehistoric animals. Artists are not credited and copyright is
being
>  > claimed by the owner. A LOT of you are here. I give the page for
>  > Tyrannosaurus, but there are a number of other categories
listed--you'll
> find
>  > me on the mosasaur page. I SHOULD be paid quite a bit for this.
Remember our
>  > little copyright discussion?
>  >     I don't know what can be done about this (probably not much), but I
>  > wanted to put out this alert so you'll know why your artwork starts
popping
>  > up elsewhere. Here's the url:
>  >
http://www.siamguru.com/images_search/special/tyrannosaurus%20rex_en.html
>  >     Dan Varner
>    This is one reason why I haven't put any flat work on my website!
> Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how to make digital
> images hard to copy?  This guy in Thailand even had the guts to put
> Disney images on his site.  That's just plain crazy!
>    David Krentz
>
> Some of my work is there also, taken from a different site other than
> dinotreker.com.
> There is a Java script code that you can place in your html that prohibits
> right clicks. This will disable the right click Save Picture As function.
> Its not
> fool proof but it takes a little more effort to save an image.  If anyone
is
> interested I will send you the code with instructions how to place it in
your
> html, just send me an e-mail.
> The code works with IE and Netscape browsers, later versions.
>
> Michael Rusher
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Michael Rusher
> Dinotreker
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