How can one detect copying a link in a browser?

Question

Yesterday I had a chat with a taxi driver and upon mentioning that I am a programmer, he told me that a couple of days earlier he had experienced the following: upon trying to c

Answer 1

I've seen a couple of sites that disable right click events anywhere on the page, with a message similar to your

Please don't copy this link, rather register

I guess that is done using javascript. Maybe with IE you can have ActiveX control that gives the developer more control over the browser.