Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/01

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Subject: [Leica] Right Click and Copyright
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sat May 1 14:30:52 2004
 
> Someone has found a fairly strong way to stop viewers from copying
> their stuff on a WEB page.  Right click does not work and you can not
> use "save as" from the file pull down.

This is most commonly a javascript function, easily defeated by 
turning javascript off before loading the page.  

Unfortunately short of some streaming plugins it doesn't seem there's 
much of a way to block copying; as someone else pointed out, in the 
normal run of things images are downloaded to the HD cache before 
display and can easily be snagged from there.

I tend to rely on fairly prominent copyright notices and registration 
to discourage theft; that $150k liquidated damages provision is a 
pretty large stick to wave at people.

               Albest,

                        Clayton

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