tiny little snippet for disabling copy/paste

gistfile1.js

$(function () {
	$('#foo').bind("contextmenu", function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            alert("Copy is not allowed!");
        });

	$('#foo').bind('copy', function(e) {
	   e.preventDefault();
	   alert("Copy is not allowed!");
	}); 

	$('#foo').bind('paste', function(e) {
	    e.preventDefault();
	    alert('Paste is not allowed!')
	}); 

	$('#foo').bind('cut', function(e) {
	    e.preventDefault();
	    alert("Copy is not allowed!");
	});
   });       

Earlier versions of the above used $(this) instead of $('#foo') - it turns out, this didn't work out so well in IE.