Re:Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Preci...
by akudha on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:54PM
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Internet was still new to most people in 2001, even computers were a novelty back then. So it is somewhat understandable that people had trouble understanding computers back then.
Today everyone is walking around with a mini computer in their pockets. It is less funny today than 2001, if someone doesn’t understand copying an image from the public internet
Re:Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Preci...
by gerikson on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:20PM
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I worked for a price-comparison website and they wanted the data to be presented within a Java applet to prevent copy-pasting. That went nowhere and the functionality only survived in the vestigial power price comparison feature.
We got a call (guy didn't use email yet) that he talked to a few companies after us and he was having a custom Windows application (there was a company actually in NL that did not believe in the web and made website 'apps' and had a framework in Java swing to make them; you had to download the jar and sometimes pay to view the 'website' content) made which would act as his site which worked as he specified. I am guessing he sold (it was E1 per download) zero, but it is not that weird actually. I still encounter the request to make it impossible to download anything from a site at clients ceo/cfo or lawyers this day.