Yes i agree perhaps i was a little drastic with my first response.
One point still stands though, in that i don’t believe it will stop many people stealing content… if any..
Unless someone comes forward and admits to stealing content there’s no way to be sure…
Copy and paste aren’t the only options in the right-click menu, one example would be print, another firefox plugin functions…
We could agree it cuts out plagiarism, but i won’t (sorry) because in reality it’s impossible to know the numbers.. You may stop 100 or 1000, then again you may stop 0, you won’t ever know…
So you may reduce user experience for a minimal return, not necessarily, but possibly…
I see it like this… Users stopped from stealing VS users annoyed by no right-click.
I could be wrong, but i’d wager there being a higer probability of frustrating visitors over stopping content thieves.
For every 1 thief stopped you might turn away 10 visitors…
Of course i can only make a best guess with my numbers to, but i’d opt for the safer option of keeping visitors happy and employing a better method to stop content thieves..
I know what you’re saying though.. I’m just an awkward bugger… lol..