How much watermark is enough for images/videos? - GoFuckYourself.com

PornMD · 07-22-2010, 06:49 PM

Was just curious to see what some of you thought, since you're fighting more content theft than most.

I have a friend who is releasing a book and he's a bit paranoid on putting the book cover art online before the book is released. It's a fantasy fiction book and the art is pretty cool, something he intends to sell prints of too, so certainly a chance someone would rip it off. At the moment I practically smothered it with "coming soon" watermarks at his request (coming soon since his site just contains a description of the book at the moment), but just wondered what's really necessary to go beyond mere inconvenience into impossible for a thief unless they had world-class skills in which case they probably wouldn't be wasting their time thieving images. I already had to break the news to him that Print Screen negates the value of disabling right-click on it since he requested me to do that too.

I mentioned video in subject too just out of curiosity on that, plus it might be helpful for others here.

Gerco · 07-22-2010, 07:13 PM

I think at some point in the past some "D Long" guy here pretty much set the bar...

Barefootsies · 07-22-2010, 07:17 PM

Work more branding into material. Mention your url, hold up a sign, say the name.

Shit people can't steal.

07-22-2010, 06:49 PM	#1
PornMD Mainstream Businessman Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 9,291	How much watermark is enough for images/videos? Was just curious to see what some of you thought, since you're fighting more content theft than most. I have a friend who is releasing a book and he's a bit paranoid on putting the book cover art online before the book is released. It's a fantasy fiction book and the art is pretty cool, something he intends to sell prints of too, so certainly a chance someone would rip it off. At the moment I practically smothered it with "coming soon" watermarks at his request (coming soon since his site just contains a description of the book at the moment), but just wondered what's really necessary to go beyond mere inconvenience into impossible for a thief unless they had world-class skills in which case they probably wouldn't be wasting their time thieving images. I already had to break the news to him that Print Screen negates the value of disabling right-click on it since he requested me to do that too. I mentioned video in subject too just out of curiosity on that, plus it might be helpful for others here. __________________ Want to crush it in mainstream with Facebook ads? Hit me up. Last edited by PornMD; 07-22-2010 at 06:51 PM..

07-22-2010, 07:13 PM	#2
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07-22-2010, 07:17 PM	#3
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