Another webpage image anti-copying script: Can you save the image?

[metho]

This morning I knocked out an image anti-copying script using mostly PHP but with JS, CSS and flash as well.

It's going to be used in a few premium content sites and the purpose is to hinder most web users from copying the images or discovering the media location for url browsing.

There's some crafty coders in here, so I was wondering if you could have a go at trying to get a copy of the image onto your hard drive. If you manage that, could you please post how you did it, so I can try and plug any holes I missed.

Webpage image protection script

For advanced FF users, the final version of the script will run on https and you wont be able to save from the media tab. The image doesn't seem to cache in the browser.memory.cache over https.

Screenshots won't work straight off the bat either.

[_Steve_]

Hey man, that's cheating... it's not an image

[metho]

It is an image file - a jpg.

[_Steve_]

Anyway....

Do a http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/ima...protection.php
and then Save image as.

[fatnic]

Or you could just press 'Print Screen', paste into photoshop, crop and save.

EDIT: Or not as the case may be. Just re-read your post. That's one crafty webpage!!!

[_Steve_]

You know that the clipboard disabling is a little... global. If your page is open clipboard doesn't work on the OS. Not very user friendly.

[metho]

_Steve, did you try the 'save image as' ? The script will be used in a context where the clipboard is the enemy. If the user is inconvenienced by it, they just have to close the window/tab.

[_Steve_]

I tried it. Now it says Image not available, I think.

[metho]

You can't access the image by a direct url.

[MikeBigg]

Hehe - noone said it was a user friendly system

I don't know what happened, but windows-E wouldn't open the windows explorer, mouse clicks seemed to have stopped working (at least they were doing nothing).

The only way out was to end IE task using task manager.

I wasn't able to grab the image, though. lol

[guido2004]

Disable javascript

Oh I forgot... you put another gif on top... lol

[metho]

nope..

[zalucius]

Its not easy to grab the image from that page, however, it is possible:


Simply use IrfanView's screencapture function on timer... dirty, yeah, but it works

[metho]

I'm not aiming for impossible; just keeping the images safe from most peeps. Other 3rd party apps such as PSPro can take a screen grab as well. But disabling the clipboard also disables the OS screengrab feature, that's good enough to keep images out of reach for average users.

[printf]

Capture it can also grab the whole page or just the image it and load it into editor.

[metho]

Does that use your desktop as the image source? Or does it request the webpage...?

[TheRedDevil]

Why are you wasting your time on creating an anti-leech script?

As long the image is displayed at the users computer, it is always possible to copy them.

In this case it took me 5 seconds to save the image using Firefox and the Web Developer plugin.
This method will also work when its server over ssl.

It would also be possible to create a curl script doing the same, you just need to set the correct headers simulating a user on your site.

[printf]

Does that use your desktop as the image source? Or does it request the webpage...?

I'm pretty sure it does a page request, because it a PHP class that does page indexing. It tells you all about the page (CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Java, Ads, cookies [1st party, 2nd party, 3rd party], html, spam rating, keyword stemming, draws a image of the page or any single element in the page, included objects).

[Bradlc]

I just pressed the magic key on my keyboard which says 'Print Screen' on it. :P
That's one way...

I also just used FireBug to delete the spacer.gif image, then I can just right click the image -> 'View background image', then just right click the image -> 'Save Image As'

[PMichaud]

Ok, now that we've established that you can block most people from using it, maybe you should consider whether it's a good idea to treat your visitors like criminals?

[EricStewart]

curl --dump-header ~/Desktop/cookie.txt http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/image_protection.php

Get cookie out of the file and insert it into

curl -b "PHPSESSID=7326cf8c5d84c675c5a5d3bf64a66e54" -e "http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/image_protection.php" http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/ima...on.php?imgID=5 > ~/Desktop/test.jpg

If I wanted to waste a little more time I could do a quick sh script to automate the whole process.

[SpacePhoenix]

It disables the clipboard completely for all apps which may possibly be illegal under UK laws (The Computer Misuse Act 1990)

[jdiben]

Too easy

[fLUx1337]

OK, I did it without using print screen:

First I blocked "http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/images/disable_clipboard.swf", "http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/scripts/javascript.js" & "http://v2media.biz/php_utilities/images/spacer.gif".

Then, I opened 2 tabs, #1 here and #2 here. I then refreshed #1, wen't directly to tab #2 and right clicked and saved as - ended up with it on my desktop, working perfectly!

Very good attempt, hate the clipboard blocking OS wide, but its pretty easy to save the images...

fLUx

[Kon-Tiki]

Its not easy to grab the image from that page, however, it is possible:


Simply use IrfanView's screencapture function on timer... dirty, yeah, but it works

You don't need the timer. It works with saving to a file instantly as well. Just don't forget to close the page when you want to cut the image out and paste as a new one.