Luke Maciak wrote:

@ Maenil:
Ah, yes – one of the sacred laws of internet is “Thou shall always point out spelling and grammar errors in the comments”. Congratulations sir, you do know how to internet the right way.

Aww, and I only point them out when the poster is calling others dumb for their opinions. Actually quite amusing how often those who are calling others stupid have horrible grammar and spelling.

Speaking of annoying copy protection measures, your post title reminded me of this old Internet classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
The Internet is so wonderfully full of fail :)

@ Daniel:
This won’t work if they use the transparent overlay trick. But the Page Info trick always works.

@ Maenil:
Ah, yes – one of the sacred laws of internet is “Thou shall always point out spelling and grammar errors in the comments”. Congratulations sir, you do know how to internet the right way. :)

If you don’t know how to internet, then you shouldn’t even be on it. That’s my oppinion at least.

If you don’t know how to spell, at least use a spell checker. That is _my_ opinion at least ;)

But yes, I agree, these protections are incredibly silly.

I love the ones that show one piece of the larger image at a time in a preview window. *printscreen*

Hell Guys,
if you are already using firefox, just use drag n drop?
DRAG the image,
DROP it to your desktop or so.
no JS can prevent this ^^ it works everywhere!

And since every dumbass is capable of that, i don’t understand image protection at all…
Luke is right: don’t put it online!

@ Luke Maciak:
Very nice, I had no idea Firefox had this feature, thanks.

@ Zel: In Firefox you can also go to Tools, Page Info, Click on the Media Tab and scroll through all the images on the page until you find the one you want as they are displayed in a preview window. When you find the one you want you just hit the convenient save button and you are done.

It’s actually easier than checking out source. Especially when the designer tries to be tricky and puts a transparent overlay gif in the IMG tag, and hides the real image url in some css include file.

My personal technique is to send them an e-mail telling them how they just lost a sale due to javascript abuse. Of course I also attach a copy of the image they are trying to protect. So far only one site has written back and said I had a point, the rest have said nothing, but hopefully it is added to the “fire our web designer” file there at the office.

My personal technique to circumvent such protections (that NoScript doesn’t disable by itself) is to manually browse the source file of the page, search for a string of text close to the image I want (best is the “alt” text, although it’s still not as widely used as the W3C would want to), and scan all the IMG tags nearby until I find the link and copy-paste it in the address bar… Not very fast but at least I get the full resolution image. It works on some .flv embed flash videos too, but I usually use a Firefox extension to save those.