What's the point of disabling right-clicks?

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Jzero

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It's kinda like throwing thumbtacks on the ground to prevent someone from driving somewhere....
 
BillGates

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IE6 gives you that handy little "save image" icon when you hover over a pic anyway, so right clicking is unnecessary.

IE6= 1, Porn Industry= 0

;P
 
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Pigasus

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There are a lotta dummies who are probably deterred from copying images by the disabling of right clicks. One should not overestimate the savvy of the average computer user. There are four-year-old children on the Internet these days.
 
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Kenny

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Originally posted by: BillGates
IE6 gives you that handy little "save image" icon when you hover over a pic anyway, so right clicking is unnecessary.

IE6= 1, Porn Industry= 0

;P
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Some sites have the script to turn that feature off as well, deterring even somewhat techie users.
 
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EyeMWing

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Heh. Even worse - a lot of schools and such disable right click GLOBALLY on the ENTIRE SYSTEM for non-administrators. There's no point to this - at all.
 
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kazamobah

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Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
 
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edmicman

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i think opera and crazy browser let you click and drag an image to load it into a new tab, letting you save it there....i don't remember if firebird has this in it or not as well
 
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MaxDSP

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Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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shoulve broken out the digicam and taken a picture of the image on the monitor...thatll show em :D
 
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NuclearFusi0n

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Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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impossible - if it can be displayed, it can be saved.
 
BillGates

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Originally posted by: MaxDSP
Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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shoulve broken out the digicam and taken a picture of the image on the monitor...thatll show em :D
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Haha, that's crazy copyprotection. Maybe you should have mounted your scanner to your monitor, then took a picture of the rig and send it to the company.
 
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petery83

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Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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I'm sure some "l337-h4x0r" somewhere can find someway to get the images...the scanner/digicam trick works well too :)
 
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kazamobah

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impossible - if it can be displayed, it can be saved.
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Maybe, but I tried all of my usual tricks and none of them worked.

I found the site I was talking about. In their FAQ it says they use a product from these guys to protect their images.
 
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badluck

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i always just do a very quick left click followed by a right click.....works all the time.
 
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ghostman

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Originally posted by: kazamobah
impossible - if it can be displayed, it can be saved.
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Maybe, but I tried all of my usual tricks and none of them worked.

I found the site I was talking about. In their FAQ it says they use a product from these guys to protect their images.
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Got the page with the pics?
 
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illusion88

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Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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You didnt think to check your cache?
 
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NuclearFusi0n

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Originally posted by: illusion88
Originally posted by: kazamobah
Yeah, the disabling of right clicks is kind of pointless.

The best image protection scheme I have seen on a website even blocked printscreen captures. The image area was replaced with the companies logo.

I couldn't get anything to work(dragdrop,printscreen,view source,right click, menu key all failed). I wish I remembered the site. All I know is that it was a professional photography service. They took pictures at events and put them on the web. You could view the full image in your browser but had to pay to save them.
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You didnt think to check your cache?
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It's probably rendered with in a java applet or something.
 
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SinnerWolf

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if they are using the standard html/MS right click disable command it's easy to bypass.

right click over your target and hold the button down
use the keyboard's enter/space or such keys to remove the pop up
let go of right mouse button.
enjoy your menu

Or just switch to opera, mozilla, firebird, etc...Or use an app like admuncher that has an option that disables sites manipulating your mouse controls and/or window controls.

As far as the screen capture goes, just use a third party screenshot app to capture either the entire screen (not just the window, that can be blocked), or a squared off custom square of the screen. Or if it's a custom app with it's own controls (which i've yet to see, what website was this do you remember?), you can use a video capture vard and screen grab from the video playback.
 
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