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how do i copy text from a copy protected website hi everyone leo notenboom here for askleo.com if you're watching this on youtube be sure to hit the subscribe button and if at the end of the video you find it was interesting and helpful make sure and hit that thumbs up that really does help everybody else on youtube find the answers they're looking for when they search across youtube here's today's question how do i copy paste from sites that don't permit it there is info on a site i'd like to save but they don't permit copy pasting is there any way around that well as you might expect the website is trying to protect itself from copy theft they want to make sure that the only place you can get their content is on their site they have the copyright to their content they have certainly they have the right to try and protect it now today's video is not so much about all the different ways you can get around that because you can but it's really more about pointing out to content producers one very fundamental rule about publishing in a digital world and that is simply this if it can be seen it can be copied let's have a look at some of the common ways that that might happen so what we're looking at right now is actually this very article on ask leo if we scroll down here to some of the content that's in the article now to be clear ask leo is not copy protected so if you make a selection and you go right click you can in fact copy it to the clipboard without a problem let's assume for a moment however that for whatever reason i do have copy protection turned on we're going to look at several different ways to potentially copy the text that you're interested in copying so there are a couple of what i'll call above board techniques these are techniques that don't involve doing anything well hacky if you will one is to simply print it to pdf so i'm hitting ctrl p to fire up the print dialog and you can see that i've actually got microsoft print to pdf selected if i now print this and save it to a file and i now go open that file you can see that in fact we've got the document in a pdf we've essentially made a copy of it in one in a very real sense for a lot of different solutions for a lot of different things that people are attempting to do this is actually enough it's a way to save the article or save the content from that website into a format that you can use later now as a side effect it is also possible that the cut that the pdf itself with the right tools might be something that you can select and copy and...