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Image upload web service with view only mode

Is there a web service/site like flickr etc which enables me to upload photos to server and then provides a URL which i can share with viewers but they can only view the photos and not download it with a right click from the browser?

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Guest [Entry]

"It is impossible to provide the ability as per u. Because there are variuos screen capturing methods and tools too.

You can share the image in view only mode with the help of flash but i dont know the particular site ."
Guest [Entry]

"I agree with the other posters, so the approach might be to make it less convenient for a visitor to obtain the images. Things I can think of are:

Use of Javascript to intercept the right-click. This can be done, one site that used to do it was seeda.co.uk - The South East England Development Agency: they wanted to discourage people from using the low-res web friendly logo in printed material or large artworks and soright-clicking directed the visitor to the official logo press pack with higher resolution images
A directive on your Apache server to stop someone linking to your image from another site. Check out Apache Cookbook by O'Reilly
Visibly (or invisibly) watermarking your images to discourage unauthorised use
You could make your images available as a downloaded application which intercepts screenshots
Also, you'll notice this with flickr, it has the CSS trick of making a preview image a background attribute so right clicking saves a ""spaceball.gif"", you have to click through to the full size image - which you are allowed to save
Use of Creative Commons licensing to advise visitors"