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    copied!<p>There is no way to have an image show in a browser that cannot be retrieved or captured by the end user. That's just the way browsers work. In the very least, someone can take a screenshot of what is on the screen and save that.</p> <p>But, the very nature of the web and browsers means that any image that a browser can display can be captured by any user.</p> <p>There are various obstacles that can be erected to make it slightly less convenient to capture an image such as make it a background image or putting a transparent gif over the top of it (both of which try to block the right-click save as options), but anyone who understands pretty much anything about how web pages and browsers work can bypass those obstacles in seconds.</p> <p>You simply cannot have secure images display on the web. Your choices are:</p> <ol> <li>Put it on the web and don't worry about it.</li> <li>Protect access to your site to only those whom you trust.</li> <li>Put watermarks in the images so if/when people steal them, they are clearly watermarked with your copyright and identity and not as useful for prints or other things like that.</li> <li>Don't display any image size on the web that would be a serious problem if it was stolen.</li> <li>Clearly explain on your site that these are copyrighted images and are not to be borrowed or taken for other purposes and trust your user base to mostly follow that.</li> </ol> <p>People who display images for selling purposes have to draw a balance between displaying a useful enough image to entice a sale, but not a useful enough image to attract too much image theft. There is no other way around it.</p>
 

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