right click and your website
things your mother never told you
While reading up on my truckload of blogs I try to keep up with on a daily basis, I ran across Neel’s entry on Blog Hack – Protect Your Words 
. He was writing about disabling a user’s right-click to copy text or save images. I quickly tried to leave a comment to fill him in on the awful truth… I ended up e-mailing him.
There are a million scripts online to disable right-clicking on your website to protect your copy, images, etc. However not all of them work. Some only work in Internet Exploder–oops! I mean Explorer 
. All can be disabled by disabling JavaScript in your browser.
There is also the coder way of getting around the right-click disabler. All I have to do is select View… Page Source on my trusty Firefox browser and I can see the HTML code. If you know your HTML you can save the text and images on any website. Even JavaScript!
There is also the Google cache way. Google sometimes has a cache’d version of a webpage and you can save text and images from there too. Even using Google’s image search pulls images from your website (I hate that).
There is also the screen capture way. I just have to hit PrntScrn and I can grab the screen and cut out images that way.
There is also the other tons of ways that I don’t even know about! So what’s a website owner to do? Go the legal way. Add a copyright line to your web pages and to your images. Get a Creative Commons license. I better go and get mine too.
