Thanks Rick, Richard, Dimithri. Good to know I'm not entirely alone.
Once again, I'm not wanting to change how people do things for good reason, whether commercial or having been bitten, or just deep preference. It is their data.
I would hope though that those of us who
haven't even thought about it, but are thinking of putting their images online, will avoid sites where right-clicking produces a message like:
"CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE FOUND AN IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD! JUST SIGN HERE TO JOIN UP!"
when there are sites like SmugMug, AstroBin, or DropBox, etc, etc, where you can make a reasoned conscious decision about whether you really want to limit access.
It's my suspicion that even Flickr is configurable, because I don't always see that cheery message. Limiting downloads to other Flickr members for example seems no guarantee that your images will be used wisely.
I think it will be a very long time before the Internet is big enough and fast enough to routinely share raw data. Here at the farm we get 0.2 Mbps at this time of day. I'm currently only thinking about final images.
Very best,
Mike