I get a bit fed up of trawling the net asking people to have the decency to ask me before they use my images I'm no David Baily but when ever I put my user name into Google it pops up in some odd places, when I look further I find my images being used for all sorts, the most recent being as wallpapers on Blackberrys, they had been cropped and all copyright removed, they did leave a link to my page here but thats not the point. I left a message asking for them to be removed and saying if someone had asked I may well have said OK, I give them their due the images have now been removed.

I upload my images here with a simple copyright tag, I don't use the dA watermark as its awful, I don't allow my images to be downloaded simply as I'm trying to sell prints to pay for more camera equipment o I can hopefully get good at photography, I know I upload large images as I simply want people to be able to see them so its a simple case of right click save as! So what choice do I have, do I resort back to the dA watermark? Do I upload smaller images? Neither of which I want to do.

I turn to dA to help in this, if a member uploads an image but disables the download then the default setting should be to stop the right click on these images, I know it wont stop everyone but it will stop the bulk of it.

After all we upload here for the benefit of dA as well as ourselves, if we didn't then dA would cease to exist.

NB This is posted in Photography but will apply to any medium here.