we have website with slideshow control which display a set of images. Client requested to "protect" them from downloading. I know about simple ways to do this:
- Disable right click
- Put transparent overlay on top of the real image
- Use CSS background
- Use canvas
- Watermarking
- etc...
all of these are only for "casual" users - those ones who are not aware of Dev Tools in chrome.
Are there other ways to "protect" images? The only approach I could think of is to develop custom flash (or silverlight) plugin which will send image ID to the webserver and receive "encoded" byte stream - and decode it and display it. Am I over-complicating this? are there other ways to prevent image download?
if flash plugin + webservice approach is the right way to go - are there any ready-to-go solutions, or I should develop everything from scratch?
Thank you.