Right click feature

[Memphis]

Is there a disadvantage to disabling the right click feature on your web site to try minimize "stealing" of content and pictures?

[Homesurfer]

Disabling the right-click feature doesn't stop anyone from stealing your images. It just adds a few steps to the process.

[Memphis]

What about disabling view source as well?

Everything is done to keep the honest man honest. Even Fort Knox is penetrable if you really had to get in.

Just trying to slow the new agent down that does not even know what plagiarism is.

[webmaster]

Dissabling view source - interesting. I have never done this before - I dont know if there is an answer to this.

I agree that right click disable only ads a few steps, but it also shows that you are actively warning the culprits, so they can't plead ingnorance if you call them on it. Right click wont effect search engine positioning.

[Memphis]

Thanks again for the info...I have done right source on big sites before and what shows up and what is there are two different things, or so it seemed to my ingorant eyes. Maybe you can't mess with it.

[Aaron]

disadvantage to disabling the right click feature on your web site

Some People have legitimate reasons for right clicking, maybe they want to go back in their browser history, reload the page, bookmark a link on the page. Things like that. The disadvantage would be those people might be annoyed and might leave your site. In my opinion it looks kind of silly and takes away from the useability of your site.
But..
It might help if you have take legal action. You could say " You should have noticed my javascript alert box with the warning." However they could just have javascript disabled and the whole thing is useless.
There is no way that I know of to diasable the source of the web page.

Aaron

[Homesurfer]

I right-click on sites all the time, without the intention of stealing photos or content.

Sometimes I want to see how large the page is or I want to check that the link's HTML is as it appears to be and not spoofed or gimmicked. If I can't right-click on it, I don't trust it.