Implement text on webpages with images?

Question

I found a couple of websites which had their content written directly on images (as part of the image-file). As a consequence, the html-code was quite short and consisted mainly of <img> tags instead of semantic elements and paragraphs. Is there any good reason to do this?

Answer 1

It is good for captcha's and other content where you don't want to it to be web scraped but otherwise not ideal

Answer 2

The reason is to protect website content from direct and easy copy. Some website owners think this for cool :(

Answer 3

It's stupid practice. Site like this won't be positioned in Google search or Yahoo etc...

Answer 4

Damyan Petkov
The same website owners cannot programming and need to do this. :(

Answer 5

What programming language?
In PHP, you can use this:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagestring.php