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