"If a simple disable right click stops one ripper....that is one less ripper that people have to worry about."

No, just one less rip.

"Out of all these threads/posts....there have only been very few members that have offered ANY positive suggestions.  It's easy to sit back and criticize and be negative."

And easy to go for the ad hominem approach.  It's just being realistic, not negative. There are no effective tools, as has been shown.

"BTW, we will never stop speeders and murderers either....but things like radar, photo radar and police do make a difference in minimizing the infractions.  Why don't we just throw up our hands and get rid of  the laws and the police?.....we'll never stop crime 100%...."

There's a big flaw in such comparisons between theft of digital goods and theft of "material" (for want of a better term) goods, and real-world crime in general, which is that while the latter is a zero-sum affair, the former is not.  Obviously if you take one burglar off the streets, a number of people will retain goods they otherwise would have lost, so it's worth pursuing burglars even if the capture rate is small, since there is a clear and quantifiable benefit to individuals (and their insurance companies).

However, trying to stop digital theft by small, piecemeal efforts is pointless.  It's like trying to reduce the number of unwanted kittens in a population of cats by neutering tomcats.  You have to do virtually all of them or it isn't worth the bother, given typical feline promiscuity.

Unlike real-world goods, digital goods (like feral cats) can be propagated over and over, and redistributed accordingly.  There might be a brief feeling of triumph to be had when one copyright violator is caught at it, but that's about all; it ultimately makes absolutely no material difference to the situation.

Such practical ineffectiveness is recognised by governments, who are having to fall back on deterrence as a last (and only) resort in dealing with copyright piracy, by introducing the sort of maximum sentences that only murderers, armed robbers and rapists could have expected in the past.  This development raises awkward questions about our fundamental values of right and wrong, I think.