STEALING PHOTOS!!!????????

[Florida Metal]

I spoke to Collin White at Flight Aware. If the stuff hasn't been removed, I am assuming they are swamped. Sara had already left for the day.

Try emailing collin.white@flightaware.com

[Michael Mannschreck]

who is the one thats stealing photos ??? this is not correct is there any way to lock out people from download my photos from my photo gallery?


or Log the users info when they take a photo from the gallery??

[Bluedharma]

Hey Michael,
It was discovered that someone was taking photos from airport-data.com and reposting them on other web sites.
Ken has taken some very good steps in preventing that.
1.) Right click has been disabled.
2.) The person taking the photos has been removed from airport-data.com
3.) Watermarks are now available on this site.

The watermarks are great!!!



There should be very little problems, but if you do discover any photos of yours on another site, contact Ken and ask that site to remove them.

Best Regards,

[Michael Mannschreck]

ok

thank you for leting me know

[Airport-Data]

Yesterday I sent out about 10 emails to members/posters who's photo(s) are stolen by cclambert07. To my surprise, I was cc'ed by by one of them with this email to FlightAware (sidenote: this poster looks like to be the aircraft owner):

[Bluedharma]

[Airport-Data]

As a follow up, today I found flightaware blocked access to cclambert07's photo gallary (or collection, whatever they call it) page, but photos are still there. Now we can't figure out how many photos are left to be checked out.

[Airport-Data]

[Ztex]

I have mixed feelings about the right click thing.

I like the idea of making it more difficult for them to steal by a simple right click and save. It is probably more effective than the watermark, unless the watermark cut through the airplane.

The problem is when I try and right click and open in new tab or if I want to share my own photo on a forum or something. But I have worked around that by logging in.

Over all I would say keep it.

[Airport-Data]

How about just put back right-click for members but leave it disabled for anonymous visitors? I think the "cclambert07 issue" is rare and isolete. Most, if not all, members on our site are great.

Ken

[THoff]

The right-click disable function is trivial to defeat, it won't slow down anyone who is even a little bit determined to rip off an image from this site. I would think that most technical users know at least one way to defeat it that doesn't require any special software etc. -- I can think of three off the top of my head.