# Making a imagezoom where content can't be stealed easily

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-imagezoom-where-content-cant-be-stealed-easily/287800>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 6, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-imagezoom-where-content-cant-be-stealed-easily/287800 "2009-05-06T12:39:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![foobar\_fighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@foobar\_fighter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foobar_fighter)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-a-imagezoom-where-content-cant-be-stealed-easily/287800/1 "2009-05-06T12:39:16Z")

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I’m going to build an application where I display an image, and people can use a magnifier to view the image in detail. However, I’d prefer the full resolution image not to be copied easily. I understand it’s impossible to prevent this from happening, but I’d like to make it a bit more difficult.

My current idea was that my flash application downloads image\_low.jpg and image\_high.jpg, and then uses the image\_high to provide the zoomed-in version of image\_low. However, anybody checking their http logs would see a direct connection which downloads image\_high.jpg, so it’s quite easy to steal.

Is there a way of making this more difficult? For instance, I could XOR the data of image\_high with some other (fixed) string, but there might be better solutions.