Posted by Safalra on 07/14/06 16:29

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:01:47 +1200, Nik Coughlin wrote:
> Michael Laplante wrote:
>> [preventing image copying]
>
> No, no, no, no, no. No. You're going about it the wrong way.
>
> What you want to do, is have a link, click here to request the image. They
> enter their mailing address on a form.
>
> Then you post them in the mail an image printed with a special ink that
> disappears as soon as you expose it to light, that way they only get to see
> it for a second before it fades away, thereby enforcing your copyright.
>
> Of course, they could photograph the image as soon as they take it out of
> the package...
>
> Back to the drawing board :p


How about an animated GIF that shows the image for 99 hundredths of a
second, but for one hundredth of each second displays a subliminal message
saying 'thou shalt not steal this image'? It's fool-proof.


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Safalra (Stephen Morley)
http://www.safalra.com/hypertext/

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