Webpage Copy-Protection is Impossible (and that's great!)

A friend of mine was complaining this week that a school's website didn't work for her. It had an over-engineered anti-copying feature which prevented her from (legitimately) copy-pasting the school's postal address. She couldn't select the text, couldn't copy the text, and the content would blur itself right in front of her eyes. "I can understand the need for this," she said, "but it’s just like annoying as am visiting the school for work." Counterpoint: I can't understand the need for this. I'd argue that this kind of technology is (a) harmful and (b) pointless. You've probably seen an annoyance like this before. My content blocker means I don't see them often, but when I do... I sidestep them. Webpage copy-protection is harmful That it's harmful is pretty obvious: my friend's legitimate use of the website was impaired! These kinds of copy-protection scripts inconvenience everybody... but they're disproportionately troublesome for people with accessibility needs. For example:…