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I have already disabled the right click function.
I would love to disable alt C and the view source option. Is this possible?
I know the website still can get copied, but at least this would stop most of the copiers.
jd
There is a problem with that last analogy. The padlock on a door of a building is several orders of magnitude more secure then disabling the right-click. But it is like the tiny padlock on softside luggage, more symbolic then practical.
I'd say it's more like having a "BEWARE OF THE DOG" sign when you don't even own one ... it will scare off an newbie but it won't even stop an amature - let alone a professional.
The thing that's been repeatedly pointed out is that professional content scrapers don't use their browsers to steal content - they just use an application that just requests & stores your pages ... javascript won't stop this because it's not even going to be executed if they use this technique.
On page javascript will only affect people that use a browser to view that content, which most of the time is a regular user.
- Tony
I know why he puts it there because there are real idiots in that market copying stuff all over the place with no idea of what copyright is or means.
Anyhow someone copied your site.
There is a guy in London whose site was copied and some of his unique code fragments were included in the copied site charachter for charachter. The copier was in the US but that did not stop said intrepid individual who persued them in law and in media.
Eventual result, legal vindication and significant publicity for intrepid individual.
If its worth it to you then go after them, if not keep ahead of them or whatever.
just some thoughts for you.
The majority of 'regular' internet users don't have enough knowledge to bypass javascript, or even know exactly what javascript is. That's who I'm trying to block. It makes them follow the system as intended.
People who know how to get around javascript are usually smarter, understand the point of the sites and typically are not the kind to try to rip me off.
I don't really care about someone stealing my HTML. I code my sites with ASP and the dynamic content on the site would make it tough for someone to rip off the entire site.
As far as the original topic, I don't think there is a way to completely disable 'view source' but heavy crosslinking of your pages and using the full address in your links will make more work for anyone trying to rip you off.
Make your site more usuable and useful not less so.
People steal images from my website all the time. I send them a C&D, and usually they comply within 24 hours. The *very* few (2 out of 18) that have not complied were forced to comply by their hosting companies.
The end.
Disabling the right click would have stopped, oh let's go out on a limb and say.... none of them. In most cases their own website designers lifted the images, in other cases they did it themselves because they were their own webmasters.
The majority of 'regular' internet users don't have enough knowledge to bypass javascript, or even know exactly what javascript is. That's who I'm trying to block. It makes them follow the system as intended.
"how can someone stealing source by using right click?"
instead of:
"how can someone stealing source by disabling right click?"
Anyway, here's the method that comes closer than anything else...
Tools needed:
1) Write a browser in C++ and come up with a unique user agent string (note that the string should only be passed to the server if the requested URL matches that of your page)
2) Compile code
3) Use .htaccess to deny access to the page to everyone, unless they are using your browser.
4) Disallowed user agents are taken to a page informing them about the need to download your browser before viewing the page
5) Done! You're protected! (Well, at least until someone reverse engineers your browser and fakes your user agent; or, until someone sets up a little nifty program monitoring the memory, and thereby saves your source code)
least until someone reverse engineers your browser
Then you can start thinking about resting.
Jeez. Yet another scoop first published on webmasterworld.
Ugh.
Usually suggested by whiners who are in the wrong business to begin with.
The Internet is about disseminating information. You can disable, encrypt and do anything else you like. If somebody wants to display whatever it is you have, they can.
Calm down, take a prozac and relax.
My company is developing a site for a local professional who is in a business we know little about. While researching his site my designer looked at lots of other sites for others in his business. She didn't steal any pix, content, code or anything else - just went surfing for ideas.
As she got a feel for the other sites and how they are structured, she began to put a layout together. At some point she copied and pasted a little text which was something like:
call me
(888) phone-number-here
or send me an email
email.address.here
She copied and pasted the text just as a time saver because it was laid out the way she wanted it and she needed to fill the space with some dummy content as she progressed.
3 days later I got 6 threatening emails from someone alleging that was her telephone number and the phrase 'call me or send me an email' was her copyrighted material.
Mind you, this was nothing more than a snippet with some dummy contact info. It was plugged into a beta copy of a completely custom and professionally designed website built specifically by us.
On another occasion I had somebody alleging copyright infringements because we had a 4 word phrase buried in a page full of text that matched a phrase on his site.
While I certainly feel sorry for people who have an entire site copied, I think this is very rare. My experience has shown that most people thing that any little thing they place on their page has to be theirs and nobody else has a right to any word or phrase that they print.
I'll stick with that position until my copyright is granted for 0's, 1's and vowels. Then you'll all owe me ALOT of money.
MB
Usually suggested by whiners who are in the wrong business to begin with.
everyone keeps whining about how everything on the internet is supposed to be their's free for the taking. the person wants to take some measure to help protect a few things ( or all ) of their site, and all they get is complaints about how that makes things so "annoying" and how it's some "great imposition" on them ...
... <sigh> and this is supposed to be a webmasters forum for web site designers and maintainers ...
never paid for copyrighted images or code have you?
everyone keeps whining about how everything on the internet is supposed to be their's free for the taking.
Besides, you cannot copyright HTML "code," which is more accurately called markup. Only the text that is displayed through the markup and the images. And both of those are displayed no matter what. Otherwise, you don't have a website.
Choster is correct in saying that disabling the right-click gives you a false sense of security. You are protecting your website from no one and annoying the "power surfers" while you are at it.
I sell prints of my photographs and license them in a very particular instances. A major California newspaper used one recently.
I don't sell and licence the photos as my "real" business, it is a sideline. It only makes about $900 - $1200 per year.
It irritates me when people take my images and put them on their website. That is why I use Digimarc. I can very easily prove that they were taken from my site that way.
If were to look for ways to disable people from taking the images, I would have to ban G's ImageBot too.
Considering the amount of daily visitors my site has, I don't think that 18 instances of copyright infringement in 3 1/2 years is so bad.
Generally, I have better things to do than look for infringers. But when I find them, I let the hammer drop.
Besides, you cannot copyright HTML "code," which is more accurately called markup. Only the text that is displayed through the markup and the images. And both of those are displayed no matter what. Otherwise, you don't have a website.
I'm Using Mozilla with the linky and textlink extensions.
Linky gives you the ability to eg open all links on a page in new windows or tabs.
Textlink gives you the ability to select a piece of text that hasn't been marked as such and treat is a link.
Both of these are!only! available in the context-menu.
Luckily, I also install MultiZilla, and from there it's simple to just disable javascript for the few moments I need to do my stuff.
Being on a Mac, I sometimes!need! to hack some webpages in order to access content that they!do! want me to be able to access. Windows Media Player doesn't play nicely with any other browser than IE-win so in order to access WMP embedded content, I have to get hold of the URL from the html source and insert it directly into WMP.
Pictures are!very! easy to get hold of. At the very least you can!always! resort to taking screen-dumps and paste these together if no other option is available to you.
That said, I'm myself using right-click disabling,!but! only for pictures - never for the page itself. And I'm very well aware that it's only a temporary stop-gap that won't at all inconvenience anybody but the complete novice - which is also the person that my right-click disabling is directed at.
html is a markip language and not anything intelligent that needs to be protected.
it is like protecting the fonts combination on a word document.
Insert the above code in your body tag. Hope that helps.
http://www.mysite.com/forward.php?page=home.html or
/forward.php?page=home.html
When a user clicks on it, the php script basically forwards the user to the home.html page on your site. Now the page stealer can copy your entire site, but the links WON'T work unless they have the PHP script to make it work - which they can't copy without FTP access.
You could take this approach one step further with a MySQL database. You assign a unique ID to each page so now your link looks like:
http://www.mysite.com/forward.php?page=grioqmnlasg
The PHP script looks up the page ID from the database then forwards to the correct page. A person might be able to copy the pages and create a PHP script to forward the requests, but they would NEVER have your database so now they actually have to work to steal your site.
Since most content stealers use software to copy and publish and rarely look at the results unless a problem arises, then seeing all the work to make the links work will most likely make them dump it and steal someone elses site.
If anyone is interested in how to make this work you can visit my web site at [url]http://www.shanelambert.com[/url]. The site has instructions on how to set this up and even the code you need to make it work!
Anyway, if you're a code thief, you don't even need to right-click. You can get the context menu by pressing Shift+F10.
Oh, and of course, there is no way to disable Ctrl+U... Just give up on protecting your code, and consider a registration before they can enter/view.
Post a poem to the web and any child with these low-tech tools can copy your content. If you don't want it copied, never ever for any reason place it in print.
That said :) there is a program called HTML Protect that can do the following:
I do recommend using these fancy schmancy options sparingly and do much testing before a page/site goes live.
disable right clickdisable screen capture
disable print
There's no way you can disable that -- period. And even if you could, that still wouldn't protect your content.
I'll agree with everybody else that I never return to sites that use a Javascript disable
Same here, I use Mozilla with mouse gestures which are activated by right clicking.
disable right click
disable screen capturedisable print
There's no way you can disable that -- period. And even if you could, that still wouldn't protect your content.
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Actually, no problem in IE either.
[edited by: photon at 6:55 pm (utc) on Dec. 5, 2003]
