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I feel like I should start out this response along the lines of what Quint said, early, in JAWS: "You all know me. You all know what I do--."

Right now I maintain three websites, altho digital images are only an issue on one of them. I actually have a store of reference photos (which I have discussed w/ you one-on-one) that I am holding off on posting there until I get this addressed.

Currently, I've read, but not tried the following.

1. Encryption. This is HTML code that you can embed in photos to keep most folks from printing and/or saving them to their hard drives. As I understand it, there is even code that is self-masking.

2. Adobe Acrobat. This is a bit more extreme, as it basically keeps things from coming up on your site (as designated). The images are stored in Adobe files (*.pdf) viewable only in the full version or Reader, but not able to be printed. The software is an added step.

Chuck, I, personally, get cheesed off by very little (divorce has a way of raising the bar on such things). But one of the areas I'll move Heaven and Earth for is intellectual property integrity. Not just truth in advertising, but stealing stuff that is incredibly hard to come buy. I actually worked my way through college as a photographer, and wrote my first book on international trade. In both cases - long before the Internet was anything like mainstream - I saw huge efforts on my part stolen by photocopy machines and the like. And I well-realize in the case of watches that it's not just the writing and photographing, but the time taken to gather and authenticate in the first place.

I'd like to see this thread kept open and some hard solutions come of it.

Thanks for the Post,
Dell