I don't worry too much about trying to protect my pictures because there's always some way around it. The watermarking I do for hotlinking is just so I can get some credit when people steal my bandwidth.
You can spend so much time trying to stop it and then they just find a new way. Like the suggestion of disabling right-clicking. I've seen places do that but all you have to do is take a screenshot, paste it into a graphics program, crop out everything but the original picture, and you're set. To stop this, you can result to posting smaller versions of the pictures with lower resolution but then you're just releasing crappy pictures.
If I were in the photography business making my living off the photos I post, I'd probably be more concerned. But this is more of a hobby where I'm trying to share all the ration information I have so I don't sweat the picture-stealing stuff too much. I'm not saying this attitude is for everyone, that's just how it's working for me here.
For everyone else posting pictures here, I won't say to do it one way or the other - just please keep posting because we love to see pictures!
Hotlinking morons on eBay
Re: Hotlinking morons on eBay
@Kman: You are right... 
The thing that upset me most is that seller don´t use the pic´s of the stuff they realy sale.
They just copy someone else pic to display their offer.
Buyers bit because they belive they will get what they see on the pic.
I would be glad they label this pic just as "example" or "specimen".
Just imagine you bid on a case of MREs because it say´s e.g. 8024 on it.
"...Wow, brand new..."
Suddenly you get just a 2002 case because the seller just copied the pic from someone else. Don´t care/know anything about prod. codes etc. Just want to sale "a case of Army food".
The thing that upset me most is that seller don´t use the pic´s of the stuff they realy sale.
They just copy someone else pic to display their offer.
Buyers bit because they belive they will get what they see on the pic.
I would be glad they label this pic just as "example" or "specimen".
Just imagine you bid on a case of MREs because it say´s e.g. 8024 on it.
"...Wow, brand new..."
Suddenly you get just a 2002 case because the seller just copied the pic from someone else. Don´t care/know anything about prod. codes etc. Just want to sale "a case of Army food".
Re: Hotlinking morons on eBay
Kman,
Okay, now my concern is posting an auction for some MRE's or parts and giving people info to better edcate themselves on what their getting. I have used the www.mreinfo.com as a hyperlink before. Now in the past I've asked about this and it's been okay with you, now this time are you saying it's not okay? If I use my own photos but give a hyperlink and credit to the website then that's okay, if not please let me know. I don't want to be accused of hotlinking or plagurism. Kind of know what I mean?
Okay, now my concern is posting an auction for some MRE's or parts and giving people info to better edcate themselves on what their getting. I have used the www.mreinfo.com as a hyperlink before. Now in the past I've asked about this and it's been okay with you, now this time are you saying it's not okay? If I use my own photos but give a hyperlink and credit to the website then that's okay, if not please let me know. I don't want to be accused of hotlinking or plagurism. Kind of know what I mean?
Re: Hotlinking morons on eBay
Treesuit,
It's perfectly fine (and encouraged!) to link to the mreinfo.com site. What we're talking about is when someone puts up an auction with MRE pictures and instead of just uploading their own pictures, what they do is put in html code to display a picture that's hosted on mreinfo.com. So when someone looks at the auction, they see a picture of a case of MREs but that picture isn't coming from eBay's servers...it's coming from mine! So I'm effectively paying for the bandwidth to deliver that picture for the guy's auction...and he doesn't even credit me back with a link to the site.
You using your own photos and linking back to the site is great and I apprectiate the traffic.
It's perfectly fine (and encouraged!) to link to the mreinfo.com site. What we're talking about is when someone puts up an auction with MRE pictures and instead of just uploading their own pictures, what they do is put in html code to display a picture that's hosted on mreinfo.com. So when someone looks at the auction, they see a picture of a case of MREs but that picture isn't coming from eBay's servers...it's coming from mine! So I'm effectively paying for the bandwidth to deliver that picture for the guy's auction...and he doesn't even credit me back with a link to the site.
You using your own photos and linking back to the site is great and I apprectiate the traffic.