Right-Click Much?

There are a lot of website owners who want to protect the images on their websites from would-be graphics thieves, and this is understandable. They have every right to protect their intellectual property. However, the mistake that is often made by website owners is the addition of a No-Right-Click Script, a bit of code added to their template, which prevents anyone from right-clicking to steal images.  So why is the No-Right-Click Script a mistake?

1. It prevents people from right-clicking to open other parts of your website in a new tab or window.
2. It prevents people from right-clicking to open links to other websites that you have on your site.
3. It prevents people from right-clicking to bookmark your website.
4. It prevents people with web-based email accounts (like Hotmail and Yahoo, etc) from right-clicking to copy your email address in order to send you an email.
5. It doesn’t stop people who know they can view your site’s source code to get the URL of an image and steal it that way.
6. It doesn’t stop people who know they can do a Print Screen to copy the page the image is on; and then they can use any graphics program to crop the photo they want and save it.
7. If your script generates a message like, “Don’t Steal My Images,” you can offend your customers who were trying to do no such thing, and send them on their merry way…to someone else’s website.

If you really want to protect your images, there’s one easy solution: watermark them! You can do this yourself with a graphics program; there are even websites that allow you to do it online. Or you can pay someone to do it for you. Either way, that is the best way to protect your website’s images.

For further reading…

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