[WEB400] Re: Hiding HTML Source: why?

[Hans <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eyers, Daniel wrote:
> just curious... *why* is this a consideration?  Has the RIAA and SCO
> gotten everyone nervous???
> 
> I'm really interested on the group's views
 
I think it's more common that webmasters are concerned about people saving 
the images on their web site. Again, there's no way you can prevent that. 
Even if there were a perfect way to disable the saving of images from a 
browser or the direct retrieval of the image in contexts other than 
browsing a web site, you can always grab the image using any of dozens of 
screen capture programs.

A related issue is the direct linking to of images on your site from some 
other site. It's a simple matter of .htaccess coding to restrict access to 
your images to clients with an HTTP_REFERER value indicating your site (if 
HTTP_REFERER is provided by the client).

Cheers! Hans