Copy protection for photos?

Hi,
Is there a free program or one for sale out there that protects your photographs when you post them on a website?
I have iWatermark but want one that doesn't distort the photos or put words on them. You know how you can right click photos on some sites but can't copy them or drag them onto a desktop? That's what I'm looking for.
Thanks,
S.

Hi S,
It's the ability to read your source page (codes, php, asp, etc) that is a huge if not impossible to disable. There's common software out there that will only show the image locations. Just a simple right click over most images, choose "properties", will give you the exact location of an image within the root directory. If you're disabling right click, I assume you cannot look at a larger image of the thumbnail...
If you can see someone's page source, you can see exactly where the image is coming from, e.g. http:// address, folder, etc... I think there MAYBE a code to prevent someone from seeing your source, I'm not sure. If you have thumbnails you can click on, you might be able to see the URL of the image in the status bar. About the only thing I can think of that is pretty good is FLASH but that's another whole thing...
It can be done, it just all depends how much "code" you want to fool with and how easy it is going to be to rotate, add or subtract images in the future. Let me know when you get something up, and I'll try to copy the image and see how hard it is... :-P
Rick
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