Right Click Suppression

Usually my articles for computer related stuff are inspired from little
conondrums I face once in a while when I'm surfing online. My latest problem
was right click suppression. We're all familiar with that considering the fact
that some webmasters think their work deserves as much (more) protection from
public duplication/remote uploading/capturing, etc. than any other webmaster*.

Trust me, if there's a way to lock it down hackers can find a way to get around
it. For example I just visited ForDarlieRoutier.org's index page, a right click
suppressed website. Meaning obviously, you can't right click to copy or view
source. All I wanted was pictures to put on the LN site. Everytime I right
clicked I would get a message saying: This site is copyright 1998-2002.
Capturing images

This is all very simple, we can go to the most obvious and widely used search
tool on the net Google(d0t)com (it's a pity they merged with AOL, and even more
pitiful that I'm a product of corporate monopoly). Anyways, all ya gots ta do
is type in the search field (ex: Darlene Routier)->Enter.Your screen pops up
with all these meaningless sites and you gawk for a moment. Since you know you
can't rip it off the FDR (coincidence?) site, you can divert and leech off of
it through another. Now onto Images or Cached pages. From there you can take
Google's copy of the site and upload it, photoshop it, or print and hang it at
the window of Diamond Shamrock. It's yours now.
Yanking text

Alright this is pretty obvious, since you don't want to type spend 25 min.
typing a quote or really cool story you copy and paste. Easy, since right
clicking is obviously a no-no, then left click->highlight->press Ctrl+C ->paste
(Ctrl+v). Pretty obvious and pretty easy, right?

Also you can use that little nifty key you've got by your Windows button, the
one with the cursor highlighting as it goes down a menu. Just highlight the
text or image and press that innocent little button and wham-o, right click
menu pops down. Ingenious, once more....
I'm too lazy to do all that

Ahh..the perfect excuse. Well stand up, fatty... and get the Dorritos and beer.
For this is the ideal way to take images using your IE browser. I'm assuming it
works with netscape as well, I have't tried though. This one is pretty simple
as well on IE (5.0 or higher) go to File->Edit with Notepad you will be given
the HTML for the site. Remote upload from there or write your own HTML, and of
course, without the right-click suppression part

. That ought to do. I'll end this article with a quote from Rob Rohan in the
2001 Winter issue of 2600. (Bless their politics)

"Trying to lock down a page is counter to the whole reason for the Internet
anyways-freedom of knowledge."

Till later. 4nN4.

*Right clicked suppressed pages can be easily obtained through your driver's
cache, though it'd be easier that way if you just wanted to copy and print, not
remotely uploaded. Credits: 2600 ('01) Winter issue, 2600 ('02) Spring issue,
Google.com.