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Countdown until some clever coder writes a page that makes getting around this as easy as putting the url into a form and clicking a button and posts it to digg.com:
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5...

flickr users can specify who can download their photos, and yes, if its in the browser, it can be saved. See the allowing download option for more details:

http://flickr.com/profile_downloads.gne

some text from the above page:
When people are looking at a photo page (e.g.), they will see a button labelled "all sizes" underneath the photo title. From there, they can download any of the different photo sizes available, including the original file, unless you choose to prevent it.

Preventing people from downloading a photo also means that a transparent image will be positioned over the photo on the photo page, which is intended to discourage* people from right-clicking to save the photo, or dragging the photo to their desktop.

If people are unable to access a photo of yours -- for example if you've marked it as private -- they won't be allowed to download the original photo either.

People with free accounts aren't able to offer their original image files for download.
Who can download your photos?

Only You
Your Friends and/or Family
Your Contacts
Any Flickr User
Anyone (Recommended)

Or, return to your account page.

* By "discourage" we do mean simply "discourage". Please understand that if a photo can be viewed in a web browser, it can be saved. The transparent image overlaid on the photo will not keep your images safe from theft, and is intended only as a slight hindrance to downloading.

It's definitely not hard if you're using Safari. Just open the Activity window (Window > Activity) and you can find the image in the list of assets used to browse the page. I'm sure there are methods in Firefox to do the same thing.

Maybe they're doing this some basic "protection" for users who want to share their images, without really sharing them. Probably in response to one or two users complaints.

Ya, it's worth a try, no?! :)

Aye, it's the usual 1x1 pixel image stretched over.
With firefox it's pretty easy to remove, either by adblocking the image or with the Nuke Anything extension, but it should slow down the odd person flicking quickly for images to use without permission. Good on flickr for trying though.

Oh here, for any gm scripters out there, I'll get you started. :]

var img = imgs[i];
if (img.getAttribute("src")
&& (img.getAttribute("src") == "images/spaceball.gif"))
{
img.setAttribute('visible','false');
}

In Firefox, simply go to your Tools menu, select Page Info and under Media all page images are available to do what ever it is that people do with other peoples "media".

view the source, just type the image number found the url, and get the link from the source and slap it in your browser's address bar and your sorted.

have photos i display how can i get a program to make them seem invisible to illegal downloaders this excites me. seem like fun
chris

You know...

On some computers, screenshots can be "good enough".

You can try to protect your digital media, but trust me; the effort will be endless and maybe even not worth the time. Still, blocking right click will deter most but anyone that wants to figure it out badly enough, easily will (see posts above).

Jay

Here are specific instructions:

View the page source in your browser. Then Search (Edit menu, then Find) for the following:

class="photoImgDiv"

Right after that, you'll see something like

The http://... thing is the URL to the actual picture.

Copy it and paste into the URL address bar of your browser to get the picture!

fantastiche