Hi, how can I stop european and other countries from using google images to steal my on-line photos?
I use statcounter and it shows the pics they are stealing, but their return address is almost the same as my url with a few letters missing. I went so far as removing the pics from my website.
I have their IP address listed on statcounter, is there any way I can report them?
Thanks

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First of all you do not know they are "stealing" you pictures. If you put your photos online then anyone visiting your pages will have downloaded the pictures to their computer. Any time you visit a page on the internet the entire content of that page is downloaded to your computer. All you might know is that someone accessed a photo directly, which still doesn't mean they are stealing it, they could have just clicked a direct link to it.

Now, if someone is using your photos without your consent then that is another issue, but just because they have accessed them is no indication that they are doing so.

There is no way to protect your images and have them available online. There are "hacks" that make it only moderately more difficult to "copy" your images without having to go into the browser cache. (But, they are still in the cache to get anyway). You could diable right-clicking, put a transparent gif over the image so the user can't right-click and save as, etc. But, then there is always the Print Screen button.

My advice is to put a watermark on your photos. That way it is very difficult for anyone to repurpose your photos without others knowing they took them from your site.

Michael J

Thanks Michael, I'll use the watermark, I used to before and somehow forgot about it. Picture shark is free and that's what I used before.
Thanks again

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If you don't want to people could found your images into the web browser (Google, Yahoo), use the robots.txt. Make the ordinary.txt file and write there following:

user-agen: *
disallow: /directory with your images/

and copy it into root directory (directory, where is your index file on server. If your images are not in one directory, repeat the disallow order and instead director put there the image file name:

user-agen: *
disallow: /image.gif/

http://www.ub-art.co.uk

To remove an image from Google's image index, add a robots.txt file to the root of the server that blocks the image.

To remove all the images on your site from google, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

then you can protect your image by java script code :

<script language="JavaScript">
var msg="Right Click Disabled!";
function disableIE() {if (document.all) {alert(msg);return false;}
}
function disableNS(e) {
if (document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {alert(msg);return false;}
}
}
if (document.layers) {
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=disableNS;
} else {
document.onmouseup=disableNS;document.oncontextmenu=disableIE;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(msg);return false")
</script>

Allam Rahmeh