One question that I get a lot of is people wanting to know how to disable the right-click menu in a user's browser so they can't download images and graphics from their site. This also goes hand-in-hand with the questions about preventing users from stealing content off of a web site. Here's the only real way to prevent this:
Don't publish it to your site!
There are all kinds of JavaScript and other tricks you can use to disable the right-click, most of which will just annoy your users, but in the end there is NO possible way to prevent users from getting your content.
Even with right-click disabled people can still get the images and files they want from their Temporary Internet Files cache, doing a View Source on your page and browsing directly to it, copy and pasting the information, choosing Save As from the File menu and a number of other ways to defeat this.
The best you can do is use a service, like Digimarc, to digitally "sign" or watermark your images so they can be tracked.
Posted
Jan 08 2005, 12:00 AM
by
dave