Album Piracy/Photo Theft - RESOLVED & TBD

[Gramps]

To add to synthyours' point, I also wonder whether the quality of a photo from a screen capture equals that of a legitimately obtained photo. I see that the file size of MrGrey's example is only 76% of the original, and to me it looks less sharp.

Hell, you can take your own camera and photograph the screen, I've done that, and that's another way of getting a low-quality copy.

[midiman]

Anyone that wants to have the photos can simply do a screen capture. These klind of deterents simply hinder the legitimate users.

This has always been an ongoing issue on the internet.

The more one tries to protect, the more rights and freedoms one gives up

Just another form of censorship wearing a different mask.

If my photos are illegally used I will look after it myself. If people cannot download my photos from TDF I shall set up my own albums at TDC or Doll Harum and delete my TDF albums.

Midiman

[synthyours]

Anyone that wants to have the photos can simply do a screen capture. These klind of deterents simply hinder the legitimate users.

This has always been an ongoing issue on the internet.

The more one tries to protect, the more rights and freedoms one gives up

Just another form of censorship wearing a different mask.

If my photos are illegally used I will look after it myself. If people cannot download my photos from TDF I shall set up my own albums at TDC or Doll Harum and delete my TDF albums.

Midiman

You do realize you own TDF, right?

[tchon]

Anyone that wants to have the photos can simply do a screen capture. These klind of deterents simply hinder the legitimate users.

This has always been an ongoing issue on the internet.

The more one tries to protect, the more rights and freedoms one gives up

Just another form of censorship wearing a different mask.

If my photos are illegally used I will look after it myself. If people cannot download my photos from TDF I shall set up my own albums at TDC or Doll Harum and delete my TDF albums.

Midiman

You do realize you own TDF, right?

I guess what midiman says here is that he is not imposing his will over the will of the majority in any case, but says beforehand that he will react personally in the way he said in case it goes for more protective schemes.

As for the poll I am reluctant to place my opinion, as there are no pictures of mine at stake, but I would like to propose the following:
Lets live with the current solution for some more time and retry the poll after, say, one month.
If it does not stop any piracy then sorry, but the effort has been proven ineffective, and can be dropped as well. If it seems to provide some protection we can check in the second poll if the benefits outweigh the disadvantages or vise versa.
The optimal solution in this case would be to allow each owner to decide for herself or himself if she/he wants to apply this protection or not, but I guess this is just technically infeasible.

[Bill]

I have always thought the photos were free for all to see and to copy for home use. They were never allowed on pay sites for profit and have been removed when requested in the past. We have always blocked predator sites from access to the Doll Album when discovered.....an easy thing to do and has been done from the start of the Doll Album. Ask Mytime how it was done.
Why is this a problem now and not for the last ten years? How can something for free be pirated?

I'm sure some here would like to see their photography on the official site of the Louvre Museum in France. I like it the way it was in the past and where is the archived Doll Album other than on my DVD.

The more we are exposed on the Internet the more new members we bring in. They need to find us to keep it going.

[Bim1]

How about leaving a shared pictures gal lery for those who do not mind letting anyone have their pictures, and a secured one.
I do enjoy my own slideshow of my favorite pics, and do not mind people copying music or videos or pictures I post.

[Gramps]

Last night I was visiting the Doll Album, and I noticed a photo that Foxy took of Paula's face mounted on one of Incred's dolls at the Hershey Meet. I wanted a copy. So I clicked on the envelope symbol ("Send this file as an e-card"), and this brings up the "Send an e-card" form. I clicked on the Preview button without even bothering to fill out the form. This brings up a "card" with an apparently-full-sized copy of the picture. I right-clicked on that picture and was able to do a normal "Save picture as".

Edit: However, the size of the file in the album is 344K, and the size of my saved version is 74.5K.

Edit again: HOWEVER, this is exactly the same result as when I follow Alex's instructions, and is an easier way to do it, unless and until they cut off this loose end that they may have overlooked.

[RaDiv]

Welcome to the internet. I voted (2). If you dont want you pictures to be stolen, dont post them!

Can't be said clearer than that

[IanEvans]

How about leaving a shared pictures gal lery for those who do not mind letting anyone have their pictures, and a secured one.
I do enjoy my own slideshow of my favorite pics, and do not mind people copying music or videos or pictures I post.

Or perhaps there could just be an anti-piracy setting for the individual albums, that can be activated or deactivated at the discretion of said album's owner? I just wanna be able to spam the chat with my pics without having to link to the page...

[Erika]

How about leaving a shared pictures gal lery for those who do not mind letting anyone have their pictures, and a secured one.
I do enjoy my own slideshow of my favorite pics, and do not mind people copying music or videos or pictures I post.

Or perhaps there could just be an anti-piracy setting for the individual albums, that can be activated or deactivated at the discretion of said album's owner? I just wanna be able to spam the chat with my pics without having to link to the page...

Yeah, me too. I just want to rightclick in my album to copy the link, so I can post a picture in a thread.
As it is now, you won't see me posting any pics. Or even uploading new pics to my album.

Edit: I wasn't able to do the poll. Would have voted other.

[synthyours]

How about leaving a shared pictures gal lery for those who do not mind letting anyone have their pictures, and a secured one.
I do enjoy my own slideshow of my favorite pics, and do not mind people copying music or videos or pictures I post.

Or perhaps there could just be an anti-piracy setting for the individual albums, that can be activated or deactivated at the discretion of said album's owner? I just wanna be able to spam the chat with my pics without having to link to the page...

Sil has been coding up a storm inbetween his day job and normal life stuff. The fix to the album will be live at some point very soon.

It includes a new awesome way to link to pictures... so awesome in fact that you don't even have to right click on them. For the lazy among you, that means less muscle movement to show off your hot doll pr0n.

Thanks to all of you who have been patient while this has been in the works.

[Technician]

A little late, but why not do albums in the same manner as FB? Let the owner of the album decide whether it should be public, or friends only? There should already be an application for that somewhere online.

[AlexKnight]

It's already possible to set albums to be viewable by the Registered group only. But that means, only those with a Doll Album account will be able to see the pictures.

And most members on TDF don't have such an account. They could indeed register for one, but without activity on the Doll Album, empty accounts are removed every 6 months.

For a lot of our members, the joy of seeing lots of views on their pictures gives a feeling of satisfaction, so they keep their albums for all to see.

[siliventurer]

This issue was successfully resolved but not able to be implemented due to administrative issues. Thank you for all community input. Resolved but postponed until further notice.