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There are some very simple steps that you can take to stop opportunists to stealing content from your website. There are ways to get past these, which I have absolutely no intention of discussing here, but will stop most people who steal content from other sites.They involve adding some simple code to your website, these stop right clicking on images, text or disable copy and pasting from your site.If you do your own sites then you can get some codes at http://www.hypergurl.com/norightclick.html If you stick 'no right click' into google you will find other sites.If you use a third party to design and maintain your site ask them to add some no right click protection to your site.The last suggestion on the page I do not feel offers any real merit, it would fool only the most computer illiterate for more than a minute. The long scroll on the right would give it away.NOTE if your going to ask for someone to review your site do not add the protection in until after it has been reviewed. It is often helpful to have the coding reviewed as there are elements that you can get useful advice on to help.

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    Hi George,

    Not a big fan of blocking right clicks on websites, as you say it is easy to bypass and if anyone is committed to stealing your stuff they will still do so.

    What I feel you risk doing is hampering the experience of regular visitors to your site, who may have print options, save to bookmarks, add to networks built into their right click menu - you've now negated the positives this can produce.

    For the sake of maybe one or two instances of theft of your work, which often come to a person's notice anyway, you risk alienating the majority of website readers.

    Trying to force your will on users of your site is the quickest way to ensure they never return - newspapers and the music industry tried this with their online offerings and look where they are now ;-)
  • Hi Craig,

    I have said that it is possible to circumvent these measures, though would circumvent those who are not aware of how to do this, and would hazard to guess this would be most of those who would just steal other peoples work rather then create their own.

    Most, if not all your examples would still be easy to do with these protections in place, all be it through the toolbar rather than right clicking.

    I have seen much worse examples, for instance using frames, which makes sharing a page a nightmare.

    I am not particularly in favour of disabling right click for various reasons, including accessibility issues, but also believe that people should have the right to know the options so they can decide if it is for them.

    With images it would be much better if you could embed information into the photo, not an easy option without the right software - as far as I know. Abode Photoshop CS2 allows users to do this. This would make providing proof of ownership a lot easier.

    Talking of images, if you are have images you are happy for others to use with conditions using creative common licenses are free and help to protect your rights, it can add additional value to your site and provide free advertising. Plus you can protect your work from being used for profitable reasons. More can be found at Creative Commons

    Obviously disabling right click would not be a good idea with the above.
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