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Welcome to the rebirth of the "right-click blocking" scripts. Please, take a trip with me down memory lane, to the glorious days of DHTML in 1998, when there were serious attempts to use JavaScript to "prevent people from stealing your images and code!" http://www.java-scripts.net/javascripts/No-Right-Click.phtml

What is old is new, what is new is old.

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My first thoughts when reading the title. Jeez, those were the days.

Yeah, just yesterday I ran into an image that I couldn't right click and save and so I just grabbed the src href out of the source.

The most interesting methods I've seen to prevent image downloading is to slick up the image into multiple parts and put them together using HTML.

That means, you have 10+ parts to each image. If you want to download it, you'll have to grab each part individually and put them together in an image program.

That, or you can just take a screen shot but you'll lose out on some resolution.

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