Hi,

I'm a web developer and can tell ya, sadly there is no way to protect gif, jpgs, text or anything else posted directly on an html web page from being downloaded.  Even if you disabled the right click so someone can't do a "Save this image as...”, they can still view the source get the direct location and retrieve it from there. Assuming they have a little web programming savvy. If you save the images as Flash files and select "protect from import" when saving, that would make it much more difficult for someone, but not impossible.

Your best bet is to put a water mark in the images so they won’t want to use it as their own.

It's the same as with a car, if someone really wants to steal your car, they're going to no matter what precautions you take. But if you make if difficult, most will probably move onto the next because it's not worth the trouble.

Best of luck.

it's a tough one, but the watermark solution seems the best at least for me

I dont know if this'll work for an animated thing but you can place a transparent gif over single images then when they click and save its totally blank, and dont find out till later which helps .

In theory there should be a way to do it with animated gifs, but unsure., If their isn't maybe some clever programmer could make one? and sell it?

What was said about putting a transparent gif over the original... you can still take it from the source, I am a web developer too and I think I have found a way to hide the source. E-mail me at dorian_markovac@yahoo.co.uk