Protect Image Download

Protect image download

No there actually is no way to prevent a user from doing a particular task. But you can always take measures! The image sharing websites have a huge team of developers working day and night to create such an algorithm where you prevent user from saving the image files.

First way

Try this:

$('img').mousedown(function (e) {
  if(e.button == 2) { // right click
    return false; // do nothing!
  }
}

So the user won't be able to click on the Save Image As... option from the menu and in turn he won't get a chance to save the image.

Second way

Other way is to use background-image. This way, the user won't be able to right click and Save the Image As... But he can still see the resources in the Inspector.

Third way

Even I am new to this one, few days ago I was surfing Flickr when I tried to right click, it did not let me do a thing. Which in turn was the first method that I provided you with. Then I tried to go and see the inspector, there I found nothing. Why? Since they were using background-image and at the same time they were using data:imagesource as its location.

Which was amazing for me too. You can precvent user from saving image files this way easily.

It is known as Data URI Scheme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

Note

Please remember brother, when you're letting a user surf your website you're giving him READ permissions on the server side so he can read all the files without any problem. The same is the issue with image files. He can read the image files, and then he can easily save them. He downloads the images on the first place when he is surfing your website. So there is not an issue for him to save them on his disk.

How to prevent user from downloading or saving an image?

If the user can see the image, it's already on his computer. Saving it to a file or copying it to the clipboard is trivial and cannot be disabled in any reliable way.

If you want to keep control over the image, don't put it on the internet.

Watermarking is the best you can do.

Right click to download pictures, to protect your privacy outlook prevent automatic downloads of this picture

Firstly, your images use relative urls (uris), so they will never work in an email.

Secondly, you need to add the images as MIME parts to the message and refer to them using a cid, e.g. <img src="cid:MyCid">, where MyCid is the value of the Content-Id MIME header on the image MIME part.

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