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Makes text uncopiable in all browsers. Combined with entity-encoded source, this could make a decent protection against most users. Not that I approve such things.

[edit] unicode encoding (\67). html-entities do not work.

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Ctrl+A seems to work fine (IE11)

Interesting, doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox for me. In Firefox you can't select anything. In Chrome you can select all, but nothing gets copied over; also the formatting of some boxes is fucked up.

uncopiable : for most users.

Nothing is uncopiable for someone with a good OCR library and a lot of time.

Nothing is uncopiable for someone with a lot of time.

And a pen.

Or a keyboard.

Or view source (of css file).

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