How can you disable right clicking

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  forums6789 · Member · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:11 am

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  Hi,
  I was wondering if its possible to disable rightclicking
  I tried this site: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/noright.htm
  Doesnt work

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:13 am

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  You can’t, at WP.com, and even on pages where it is disabled, people can still sift through your code and find the images. Getting ripped off is just a risk factor of the internet; some people watermark their pictures with their URL so all copies will have their URL right there in them, and that’s about the best protection you can have.

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  forums6789 · Member · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:17 am

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  how about words?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:20 am

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  Protect your words? No way, as far as I know.

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  forums6789 · Member · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:24 am

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  oh..thats sad… thanks for helping anyway

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  tellyworth · Staff · Feb 25, 2008 at 8:50 am

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  Anything that can be read or looked at can be copied. Things like scripts for disabling right clicks have no effect other than to annoy honest readers.

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  forums6789 · Member · Feb 27, 2008 at 8:39 am

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  I dont think honest readers will be annoyed since what can a honest person with rightclicking?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 27, 2008 at 9:22 am

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  Fair use.

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  forums6789 · Member · Feb 27, 2008 at 9:35 am

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  What do you mean Fair Use?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 27, 2008 at 10:07 am

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  Google it. Fair use is an established principle.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Feb 27, 2008 at 11:08 am

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  My right click menu has fiendish tools like “Search in Google”, “Look up in Dictionary”, and – perhaps most dangerous of all – “Back”.

  Meanwhile, anyone who actually wants to copy images or content need only disable javascript to defeat the tool that you linked to. (Or use Firefox, which has an option to ignore such things. Or a Mac, where option-click will download an image)