A Solution For Disabled Right Click On Web Page

Simply disable Javscript all together in the browser would allow you to right click on a right click disabled page.

It seems that these days there are less and less websites disabling right click, since it is now considered unprofessionally to disable right click. I suppose if you are really desperate to protect text from being copied, you could always put the text in images or embed it in a Flash SWF file with text selection disabled.

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Thanks for the tip(s). There have been several occasions when I've needed to copy something from a website (not illegally) and the "you can't right click" sign comes up. I'll try out one or two of those methods next time I need something.

I especially like the idea of looking at the page source and copying it - that's a really good idea.

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I haven't really come across one of these sites in a while, but whenever i have done and i wanted to get an image from it then it really bugged me.

Before i would just print screen the page and then cut out the image i wanted using any image editor (mainly paint if i wanted to do it fast!).

Now i can say i know of quicker and easier ways of doing this (disabling it using the java)!

Thank you very much!

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Heh, so you haven't seen any actual graphic designers do this? You know they do it because they need to protect their work, right? Otherwise their client would just take the work, use it, and not pay. Granted, I don't think watermarks are the best way to protect artwork--showing a low resolution image of it is much better. It's unusable anyways, whereas a watermark is easily removed by anyone who has some semblance of Photoshop skills.

Obviously there are crap artists who do it, but if there are people (idiots?) copying from crap artists, who are you to complain? It's not like crap artists all draw Naruto (or other copyrighted) pieces; some just draw original crap (unfortunate!). And they get copied. (Which is rather sad)


For the record, he's not trying to sell his art. If he were, he wouldn't be idiotic enough to post his images in that high of a resolution (without an extremely glaring watermark), get it stolen, and then promptly complain. He's already got a job and isn't looking for another one. That's very different than freelance graphic designers who do need to make sure their work is paid for.

This has gone rather off-topic, from right click disabling to watermarks. :-P Anyways, back to the topic. Yeah, disabling right click is entirely useless. You have no idea if Javascript is even turned on in their browser (I, for instance, always keep NoScript on). I can click on any right-click disabled site without any hassles. Moreover, sometimes right click disabling doesn't even work--I remember trying on Firefox on a right-click disabled site--the alert box telling me not to right click showed up, but the right click menu showed up as well, so I could click as I pleased.

Finally, if you do want to protect images on your site, either don't post it to the internet or use low resolution images as a sample. You are merely making the web an annoyance for users who don't actually want to steal your content, while those who do want to nab your content can very easily do so anyway.

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The idea of disabling right clicking or plastering watermarks all over images is absolutely idiotic anyway. Interestingly the only places I have seen this done for "art" the images are absolute crap anyway. In large part those that use such practices are pornographers or deviant art dwellers who seem to think that any crappy anime rip off belongs in the Louvre. I also find it hysterical and insulting when someone does yet another Natruto (or whatever) image and then puts a copyright mark on it.

For the record the most profesional art site out there Conceptart.org never does this with images.

That to say I have never seen a disabling page that had anything worth capturing anyway.

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