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What's the point of disabling right-clicks?

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right click and hold
click the "OK" or cancel button with left mouse button, release right mouse button over image you want to save
 
One of the more innovative attempts I saw was a site that stretched it's images with editing software and replaced every 2nd line with a new one. Then, when they created a page, they set the HTML code to display the image at 1/2 the actual size, so Internet Explorers algorithm to resize images would remove the lines they added, and the image would appear perfectly normal. But if you attempted to save it to your hard drive, and view it on it's own, you would see what appeared as the original image with their logo overlayed.

Not sure if I explained it exactly right but I thought it was pretty neat.
 
But for that one all you would have to do is a print screen. Thats alot of hussle and bussle for something easily deafeated.
 
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
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.
impossible - if it can be displayed, it can be saved.

they would have been saved in your temp internet files...
 
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