From: mike 


I have been able to get around that stuff just by turning off JavaScript. 
Indeed, most of the time, I browse with JavaScript turned off.  It is just
a check box on the toolbar of my browser.

A lot of sites work much better without JavaScript, less garbage is downloaded.



On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 11:14:01 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>There's  software out there 'HTMLBLOCK',  'HTML Protector', etc that
>supposedly disables copy/paste
>
>
>"John Beckett"  wrote in message
>news:1pdup2tadsghbmbd9qj5msnee1an7g89nb{at}4ax.com...
>> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>> news::
>>> Did you try left-dragging backwards and up from the end of the
paragraph?
>>> IE7
>>> here had no trouble selecting and cutting.  I find trouble like this is
>>> usually video-driver related, and if you really need the text you can
>>> grab it
>>> with another browser, by changing screen rez, or by changing
browser text
>>> size
>>> and/or font.
>>
>> I'm using IE6. Yet, I did try every kind of click and drag. It did look
>> like a bug somewhere. It doesn't bother me - I was really wondering if
>> there is some clever trick that some sites use to
"protect" their content
>> by interfering with common browsers.
>>
>> John
>>
>

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