Disabling Right Mouse Click without using JavaScript

[Christ]

Is there any way to disable the Right Mouse Click Button on a webpage indefinately without having to use JavaScript?

[pyro]

None that I'm aware of

[mrwizard2u]

I have yet to understand WHY a developer would disable right-clicking. It can't be to protect the images or content of a web page. There are at least a dozen ways for me to copy the content of a website, even if it is right-click disabled.

The only thing it realy does is piss off the viewer who wants to open a link on the page in a new window, so the original window is still accessible. Poor design, coupled with some sort of paranoia is all it is, disguised as a thin film of security.

[gatman]

i nott lyke that eifer.

[Christ]

I understand that there are several ways to save things on a website. I asked the wrong question. Is there anyway to disable all saving on a webpage? If not is there anyway to protect your images from being saved?

[pyro]

Originally posted by Christ
Is there anyway to disable all saving on a webpage? If not is there anyway to protect your images from being saved? The answer to both of these questions is "no." All someone needs to do to save an image from you website is have a screen capture program. Then, no matter what you try to do, they will be able to get you images. If you are worried about someone taking them, you could watermark them...

[Christ]

What is watermarking and how do I go about doing it?

[jeffmott]

Christ
Simmer down Buddy....take a smoke break
People are just becoming very annoyed with this question because 1) it is one of the most frequently asked questions, and 2) it's stupid; it annoys visitors and nothing more.

If someone says they've found a way to protect their pages and images on the Web, they're wrong, and probably don't know as much as they say (or think) they do.

Feel free to help spread the word to others so we can take a break for a while :)

[jeffmott]

Watermarking is essential adding copyright or ownership information into the graphic in an area that would be extremely difficult to edit out.

[pyro]

A watermark is a bairly perceptible image (usually text) that you overlay your current image with. The problem? You images on you site have visible watermarks. The only use for this that I can see is if you are a photographer, and trying to save your original photographs. Also, I'd say that a decent graphics artist could remove a watermark.

[gatman]

i cud remoof a warter mark easily. i haff restore old crumple photo in photoshop, so a wartermark is piss.

[Christ]

So I guess there is no way to protect your images 100%. Yes I am a photographer, but I am just starting and I really dont want to have to spend money on the copyrights. People can still use the photos then and I might not catch them. I would feel safer knowing that the images will not be able to be used elswhere no matter what.

[pyro]

Originally posted by Christ
So I guess there is no way to protect your images 100%.No, not really. A watermark is probably your best bet, though.

Originally posted by Christ
I really dont want to have to spend money on the copyrights.Under US laws your photographs are automatically copyrighted, although there are definit advantages to registering them...

[Christ]

Thanks alot for your help guys take it easy

[Christ]

How would you go about breaking a watermark?

[pyro]

Like I said before, you'd have to be good a manipulating graphics. Basically what you would have to do is open the image in an image editing program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, etc) and then manually remove the watermark by painting over it with colors that will correspond to the underlying image.

[Christ]

I assume that would take quite alot of time and effort?

[pyro]

It all depends on the image. If you take a picture that has a lot of sky in it, it would be quite easy, because you are only editing blue. I have already manipulated a photo for someone to remove a tree that was in front of a house! But overall, yes it is a time consuming job to edit photos.

[Stefan]

Originally posted by gatman
i cud remoof a warter mark easily. i haff restore old crumple photo in photoshop, so a wartermark is piss.

It's resonably difficoult to remove semi transparent texts, since the colors will be blended with the background image itself.

Impossible? No.
Difficoult enough to not make it worth it? In most cases yes.
A skilled graphics person or photographer would just as easily recreate a similar picture (and not have any legal issues to boot, since then it's his originally created image).
Thus the risk of getting your images ripped off when you have a proper watermark is pretty slim.

[Digital Dragon]

This is the problem I am encountering now.

I added a JavaScript to disable right-clicking because I put effort into my images..and to have them stolen is a real pain in the posterior. I know disabling right clicking can be a pain for others but protecting my work is more important than the compulsion of others to just steal the work of others without so much as asking.

Watermarks are good but I really do not want to distort my images.

Someone once told me to make my pages into a JPEG and then post it...problem is the file would be too large.

And I cannot depend on the courtesy and tact of others to E-Mail me about it.....but it would be cool if a web program was made that let you control what aspects of your site can be copied and what ones cannot.

But the Internet is really still in its infancy...it is still a relatively new technology so I can only hope new codings and such will be put in place.

[pyro]

Originally posted by Digital Dragon
I added a JavaScript to disable right-clickingIt's not going to help. Someone can save you images a number of other ways, such as file>save as or a screen capture program. Or, they could simply grab the images out of their catche. All you are going to do by disableing right clicking is annoy visitors.

Originally posted by Digital Dragon
Watermarks are good but I really do not want to distort my images.I still would recommend that method if you want any level of security. You don't need big, gaudy watermarks. If you make a nice watermark, and only overlay the corner of you image, it won't distort your image.

Originally posted by Digital Dragon
Someone once told me to make my pages into a JPEG and then post it...problem is the file would be too large. If you would choose to do it that way, that would be the least of you problems...

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Digital Dragon
Someone once told me to make my pages into a JPEG and then post it...problem is the file would be too large.


There is still nothing that would prevent a user from making a screencapture and just paste in your images in a graphics proggy.

Apparently this needs to be repeated again and again:
There are ONLY 2 ways to protect your images.

#1 DONT PLACE THE ONLINE AT ALL

#2 If you must place them online there is only 1 resonably secure method to make sure noone will steal them, use a watermark.
Everything else is just a waste of your time and usually a nuicance for all the users that don't plan to steal anything in the first place.