Isnt this bad too?

[Jessika]

One thing you need to take into consideration is this is the internet,I dont think i would really care,I do not post any personal pictures on here,My dogs yes,and really what could be done with them,i think if people dont want there pics used they can put a right click protection on them which takes 2 seconds,Then everyone is happy.

There are so many workarounds for that, though. The moment you view an image in your browser window, the image has already been downloaded to your hard drive via internet cache. And right-click scripts (95% of the ones used, anyway) only work in IE-powered browsers. They don't work in FireFox or Mozilla, etc, at all.

My suggestion is watermarking, or only putting up poor-quality high-compressed images on the net. KEEP the originals on your hard drive with the EXIF information (most, if not all, digital cameras nowdays include EXIF information the moment the image is captured). Just remember to never edit the originals and save over the originals. If you want to edit, save as, that way the exif will be intact on the original and that way if there ever IS a dispute, the copy you put on the net (so long as you did not upload the original) will not have the EXIF information but your original image will, as proof you took the image. (of course, yes there ARE programs out there that you can use to add or copy exif information from another picture)

Of course there are lots of other methods, but this is one I prefer.

But bottom line... if you don't want an image stolen... don't upload it anywhere on the inet.

[Randi]

Well, as long as a picture isn't copyrighted, I don't see anything wrong with using it in a forum like this. Since most pictures on the web are jpg's and only 72 dpi, you would not be able to do anything serious (making money) with it, as for printing, it would have to be at least 300 dpi, preferably more.