How to protect images on your Magento site? This is probably a question that every Magento shop owner has asked him or herself at some point. Having spend a small fortune in money, time and/or effort in getting the right pictures for your web-shop it can be quite disheartening to see your product images appear on a competitors site.
The first line of defence is to protect your images with Magento's dynamic watermarks which can be found in the configuration. But what use is a watermark if the original image is still available ?
I made a few tries coding a .htaccess file that would deny all access. This however blocks access to the image editor in the admin panel as well.
#This is the page where visitor will be redirected if tries to access images directly.
I followed your direction. I create a .htaccess under /media/catalog, and copied your code into the file. Seems images still can be copied. Any suggestions?