Comments on: NHL Officials protect their photos from…themselves. http://www.mickmel.com/blog/200905/nhl-officials-protect-their-photos-fromthemselves/ My take on social media and SEO Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:10:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mickey http://www.mickmel.com/blog/200905/nhl-officials-protect-their-photos-fromthemselves/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Mickey Tue, 12 May 2009 23:30:10 +0000 http://www.mickmelseo.com/?p=264#comment-215 Exactly. I hate when sites disable right-click for the very reasons you gave. It doesn't stop people from stealing your images, but simply irritates your users. Kind of like heavy DRM on video games -- doesn't stop the pirates, but it gets in the way of your customers. Exactly. I hate when sites disable right-click for the very reasons you gave. It doesn’t stop people from stealing your images, but simply irritates your users.

Kind of like heavy DRM on video games — doesn’t stop the pirates, but it gets in the way of your customers.

]]> By: Aaranged http://www.mickmel.com/blog/200905/nhl-officials-protect-their-photos-fromthemselves/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Aaranged Tue, 12 May 2009 22:03:20 +0000 http://www.mickmelseo.com/?p=264#comment-214 Too funny! A variation on this theme is sites that "protect" themselves by disabling right-click functions using JavaScript, which usually disables *all* right click functionality, not just saving pictures (which anyone with a modicum of HTML knowledge can circumvent by viewing the page source and uncovering the image URL that way). In general copyright "protection" ends up hurting a site more than helping - for SEO, for user experience, and for chilling any warm fuzzy brand/site associations. Too funny! A variation on this theme is sites that “protect” themselves by disabling right-click functions using JavaScript, which usually disables *all* right click functionality, not just saving pictures (which anyone with a modicum of HTML knowledge can circumvent by viewing the page source and uncovering the image URL that way).

In general copyright “protection” ends up hurting a site more than helping – for SEO, for user experience, and for chilling any warm fuzzy brand/site associations.

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