Stop People Stealing Website Images: The Escalating Madness

Stop People Stealing Website Images: The Escalating Madness
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The evolution of image protection from amateur hour to galaxy brain:

First stage: "Let's disable right-click!" - the digital equivalent of putting a 'Do Not Touch' sign on a cookie jar. Cute.

Second stage: "I'll detect dev tools!" Because surely no one would ever use a second device to take a photo of their screen. Revolutionary thinking there.

Third stage: The convoluted PNG-video-DRM-EME pipeline. Six meetings, three sprints, and a product manager's career highlight to implement.

Final stage: The ultimate overkill - capturing user clicks to dynamically regenerate encrypted frames. Because nothing says "reasonable solution" like burning a server farm to protect your stock photos.

Meanwhile, users just press Print Screen and move on with their lives.

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