I know there is hot-linking prevention in CPanel - but that's all I know about it.

If they guy downloaded it and posted it to his own server it's a bigger challenge. If you have Photoshop you can embed a digital watermark identifying the photo as yours. It can't stop someone from doing what this guy did, but it can give you one more weapon to fight with.

I'm looking for something more -- I've encountered some site that inhibit the right-click feature and other methods of copying images.

Try this:

http://www.optimization-services.com/right-click-copy.asp?ID=4

Not sure if it works, but worth a try...

SR

There's no way to do so, Greg.

Most of the "disallow right-click" hacks out there are easily defeated (there's even a standard Firefox extension for just such a purpose) and then there's the simple screenshot method.

The reality of the Internet is that any content you post can be inappropriately used by others. Period.

There are steps you can take to make the eventual process of forcing a takedown easier, and to make sure that your bandwidth isn't being used to display the image on another site (hotlinking), but as far as preemptively stopping use in the first place? Unfortunately not.

Paul

You could try putting a watermark on the picture in a place where it would be difficult to crop out. Of course, it'll make your picture look crappy but it might deter theft.

Heh... I would just upload a picture of fresh dog-poop with the same name as your stolen image so that when people open his site, they get to see a big steaming pile o' dog sh!t!!!!

LOL, Madfish. Unfortunately, you can't have two different URLs with the same name, silly goose.