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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thanks bunch!
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thanks, this is a great tip! Remember to always give proper credit to the amazing artists on Flickr!
Works perfect for the desktop…thanks for the tip….make sure to give the photogs credit
no, 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.
@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.
But if I want to download the Original Image, how to do
I 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.
So you are saying that if someone posts a picture (or a few pictures) with a link to the rest of your stuff that you posted yourself (social networking), in a place where they aren’t making a dime off what they post (social networking) and someone goes to your site and buys your stuff because they found it on a blog they are already reading, you are going to be angry at a person who is giving you free publicity? This seems counter intuitive to the entire social networking system of self promotion.
That being said, no one, for any reason, should take an artist’s work and use it to gain monetary value for themselves in ANY way, ever.
This is why we dont use flickr because as much as we would like to share our work on slide shows people like you will always find a way to steal it. We have lawyers and sick them on as many people we can find stealing. The sad part is we don’t mind allowing fans of our work to post small images on there sites if they ask. Too many people steal and we do what ever we can to prosecute them. Title 17, Section 504 of the U.S. Code. The basic level of damages is between $750 and $30,000 per work, at the discretion of the court. Plaintiffs who can show willful infringement may be entitled to damages up to $150,000 per work.
@slidell
sorry to hear that, have you heard of watermark? Sorry for asking a stupid question. Bottom line is, watermark your images, will save u tons of lawyer’s fees
Hi
it’s not working in INTERNET EXPLORER ..×
Please help me .!!
Or just use AdBlock Plus to block spaceball.gif from the get go…
thanks a lot i am a big fan of jonas and i was unable to copy their photos coz they were protected by spaceball again thanks a lot
Thanks man
@Andrew:
Blocking spaceball.gif using Adblock+ doesn’t help at all…
You are the man !!! thanks a lot
thanks brother
it’s very long process dude.
thanks alot man u rock!!!
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