> But if you did a more bespoke tool and/or hid your urls more cleverly then
> that would have to be a major deterrent. Even though technically someone
> would be able to grab them (either underlying files or screen grab), the
> thought of manually doing this should be daunting enough to most potential
> 'thieves', surely?
Absolutely; 'obfuscating' the URLs seems like a fairly easy step that
doesn't affect performance and usability, and will probably put-off the
undetermined thief, so seems like a sensible counter-measure to take. Like
putting a chain and lock on a bike.
I just wanted to make the point that there is no 'clever' definitive way to
stop them; technology is so advanced (and available) that it's fairly
trivial (for programmers, anyway!) to set up a scriptable 'web browser' that
can look at any URL (or set of URLs) and 'move' the zoom around
automatically (simulate mouse clicks), screen-grabbing the contents each
time.
Dan
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