Download Photo Images From Flickr Protected By Spaceball.gif
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How to download photo or images from Flickr.com that is protected by spaceball.gif? When saving an image to your computer you get an image with the file name called spaceball.gif then you should follow the rest of the steps to get the real photo. For your information, this transparent image has been placed over the photo at the request of the author for copyright purpose. This transparent image will keep you from being able to right-click on the real picture and download it. Please give credit where it is due when using images from flickr.
Note: This is not a hacking tutorial, installation of software or plugin not required. This is perfectly legal because you are browsing through your temporary filed folder in your firefox.
Firefox – Download Protected Images
Step A – Right click anywhere on the white space of the webpage, go to ‘View Page Info’
Step B – A window will pop-up, go to ‘Media’, then slowly browse through the ‘list of media’, when you managed to find the right photo or image as shown in the media preview box, select the ’save as’ button to save the flickr image to your computer.
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misha
February 28th, 2009thanks bunch!
you rock
cheers
JayJay
March 8th, 2009thanks, this is a great tip! Remember to always give proper credit to the amazing artists on Flickr!
Mister Akme
April 27th, 2009Works perfect for the desktop…thanks for the tip….make sure to give the photogs credit
Brent Watkins
May 3rd, 2009no, don’t give credit – don’t steal the photo.
If the image is protected, it is because the artist wanted it that way. Please don’t pretend that circumventing the spaceball.gif is anything other than theft of intellectual property.
Yes, I know the image is cached on the computer and yadda, yadda, yadda but the obvious intent of the creator was to control their copyrighted work and its distribution.
If you like the image enough to take it – contact the artist and get it legally.
Giving proper credit does not absolve you from copyright laws or feed the photographers family.
Thanks.
Patrick Szczypinski
June 11th, 2009@Brent – I agree. I work at a photo/design studio where we make our livings off the work we do by licensing photos and designs for various uses.
If people are pulling it because they like it and it’s cute and they want it on their desktop or phone wallpaper or whatever, it’s one thing. We happen to use social networking sites (a category into which flikr falls IMO) to help promo our portfolio and get hired and when someone pulls it to make their own posters, use as design elements, or use in ads and stuff, that sucks.
Why spread these techniques in the first place? It’s not hard to contact us about photos with our credits all over them…
- Patrick S.
Taybalo
September 21st, 2009But if I want to download the Original Image, how to do
Bob
October 9th, 2009I thought it was just something Flickr did to save service money by stopping people from linking the photos.
I share photos all the time for entertainment purposes, just by linking the web address of the picture and a short description. You have to click it and see it on Flickr then, at the artists page on Flickr.