| Webmasters everywhere around the world are | | | | click action. Some will even display a |
| starving for content on their websites. Every | | | | predefined popup saying that right clicking |
| second of the day some website somewhere on | | | | has been disabled. |
| the Internet is the victim of digital content | | | | |
| thievery. This content could be the content | | | | Well that's great but what about the |
| from a review, a news story, an article, or | | | | unscrupulous webmaster that just goes to his |
| even sales copy that a website proprietor | | | | View source menu option inside his browser? |
| broke one's back over for weeks or even paid | | | | There really is no simple answer to that |
| for. Let us not forget the graphics on the | | | | problem. Some webmasters have even went so |
| internet site either. Artwork theft is the | | | | far as to use escape encoding after they have |
| most common digital theft of all. | | | | coded their html before uploading it to their |
| | | | website. This is not failsafe as there are |
| The distressing thing is that it is so easy | | | | utilities that will also decode and unescape |
| for the digital thieves to acquire the | | | | the distorted code that they see in view |
| digital content. All they have to do is | | | | source. Still it at any rate it thwarts most |
| highlight, right click, select copy, and | | | | of the copy and paste digital thieves. |
| there you go the content from your website is | | | | |
| now in their possession to do what they want | | | | Developers in web 2.0 technologies proclaim |
| with it.Admittedly article directories such | | | | to making advancements in stopping digital |
| as this one have helped, but did you know | | | | theft, but the techniques are still way early |
| these digital thieves even steal content from | | | | in development and not stable enough for the |
| the article directories too? They sure do. | | | | plethora of web browsers in use today. |
| Now there are even a couple of programs that | | | | |
| will download an entire whole website and | | | | So for now the best we as webmasters can do |
| with just a few clicks change the downloaded | | | | is to use one of available JavaScript and |
| content to appear to be original content on | | | | even go so far as to escape encode for added |
| another website. So what can we do about it? | | | | protection. Hopefully in the near future this |
| | | | problem will be history as the web developers |
| There are many scripts a webmaster can use | | | | of today put their heads together and |
| that will block the use of right clicking on | | | | diligently work to solve the trouble that |
| a webpage. Most all of these are JavaScript | | | | allowing right clicks causes. |
| or cgi scripts that do incapacitate the right | | | | |