I couldn’t help but laugh when I came across the “copy protection” that was built into this site for cartoonist’s trying to sell their individual strips…
Now nevermind the goofy URL – it looks like it got scooped up by domain squatters a few years ago – but to truly experience the absolute genius behind this system, go to one of their links LIKE THIS ONE RIGHT HERE and accidentally just hover your mouse over the comic itself … like I did several times before I realized what was actually going on.
Talk about the most intrusive right-click disabling attempt I’ve ever seen – I almost thought that their site was just plain broken at first until I moved my cursor and found the shiny, full-color Opus waiting for my persual below. Funny thing is, you can still get to the actual JPG by simply doing a quick search of the HTML source, and you could even just do a screen capture if you really wanted.
The point is, yes – stealing people’s creative work is bad, but there’s got to be a better way to spend your time enforcing it than by implementing silly tactics like this that in the end just make your work even more inaccessible and undesirable to everyone else who never had any intention of stealing your work in the first place.