Re: Free Sites & Pirates

["Gary Sanford" <sanford1@xxxxxxx>]

> 
>  Luvdove6 wrote, on free webspace providers, etc ...:
> 
> > If you sign up but ONLY post your URL and no images, can you still
> > risk having your images sold or copied?  If so, I'm taking them OFF 
> > ;-)
> 
>  Truth is -- if one has images on the web, someone may easily
>  download the file. That's Life. Now - if you put up a file w/
>  enough detail & resolution to produce a decent print from some
>  pirate w/ an inkjet printer to sell as his/her own in their own
>  little burg -you're foolis & it's just tough tomatoes. An image
>  can look just fine on a monitor, but produce a lousy & small inkjet.
>  This is (IMHO) the only protection, in reality. Besides, in a decent
>  sized usage sale, the client always needs the original (or a high
>  quality copy) to work from. No one is gonna rake in big bucks from a 
>  downloaded 70k jpeg at 72-100dpi. There is no way to prevent an 
>  unscrupulous person from using the file you have up for display, so
>  don't put up something that will produce decent hard-copy.
> 
>           Bill 
> 

If you put your best images on the web, it pays to keep them small
and watermark them with a plug-in from www.digimarc.com  .
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Gary Sanford
sanford1@xxxxxxx
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