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Most of his claims are unsubstantiated:

4) The developer takes others content and does not give credit & is hypoticritical): This is malicious and unsubstantiated claim. It needs examples to be made, and it should get the author modded down. I went to http://games.briggster.com/ [briggster.com] and there is no evidence that he has stolen any code. In fact it's a crappy page with some games on it.

Also, and more to the point, the game is NOT original, and nowhere does he give credit to the authors of the original BurgerTime game. He didn't even bother to change the name even slightly.

When you rip off someone, you don't have the right to get mad when someone in turn rips off you.

This is the sort of stupidity that has crackheads going to the cops to complain about getting shorted on their last "buy".

Fucking retards, both of you.

I think what he didn't like was the fact that they used his game to promote their website, in a way (judging from the screenshots) that made it seem like they created the game - without mentioning that they didn't, and without linking back to his actual site, and of course, hot-linking the game, too.

They didn't really hot-link the game, though, did they? It's just a link - it's not like the game's embedded in the page, any more than this is ... There, now - am I guilty of hot-linking too??

And I don't think the company was intentionally claiming the game as theirs - it was probably more a case of the webmaster finding a clone of burgertime, thinking that'd be a fun thing to have a link to and providing the link. It seems an unlikely thing to have been done out of malice, it's much more likely to be the result of thoughtlessness. After all, the start screen of the game provides a prominent link to the author's page - perhaps they thought that that was enough? Sadly, the game's author didn't take the time to find out what their intentions were before launching his all-out attack ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely defending Fuddruckers - they certainly should have acknowledged the authorship of the game, and a polite email to the guy asking if they could link to his game would have been nice as well. It's just that none of the above warranted anything remotely like his response ...

It's quite clear who the author is. If anyone cares, they have the link and the email address right there.

Ps: if the link is goatse, it's Robb going at it again.

The parent to this makes several claims & bashes the developer. Mod the parent down:

Most of his claims are unsubstantiated:

1)The developer got free advertising: This statement is true in a minimal way. Not like going to http://games.briggster.com/ though

2) An insignificant amount of bandwith used: This statement is unsubstantiated: There is no mention of actual bandwith use; just that Fuddruckers was creating ~10% of traffic.

3) The developer chose to do something malicious: True, but funny. Although the developer may be vegan - and thinking that Fuddruckers is incredibly malicious. (I doubt it)

4) The developer takes others content and does not give credit & is hypoticritical): This is malicious and unsubstantiated claim. It needs examples to be made, and it should get the author modded down. I went to http://games.briggster.com/ and there is no evidence that he has stolen any code. In fact it's a crappy page with some games on it.

I am suspecting that this is the webdeveloper who just got canned from Fuddruckers - although his boss told him to do it.

The parent to this makes several claims & bashes the developer. Mod the parent down:

Most of his claims are unsubstantiated:

1)The developer got free advertising: This statement is true in a minimal way. Not like going to http://games.briggster.com/ though

2) An insignificant amount of bandwith used: This statement is unsubstantiated: There is no mention of actual bandwith use; just that Fuddruckers was creating ~10% of traffic.

3) The developer chose to do something malicious: True, but funny. Although the developer may be vegan - and thinking that Fuddruckers is incredibly malicious. (I doubt it)

4) The developer takes others content and does not give credit & is hypoticritical): This is malicious and unsubstantiated claim. It needs examples to be made, and it should get the author modded down. I went to http://games.briggster.com/ and there is no evidence that he has stolen any code. In fact it's a crappy page with some games on it.

I am suspecting that this is the webdeveloper who just got canned from Fuddruckers - although his boss told him to do it.

After further review, I've determined that three "wrongs" actually bring justice to this situation (very complex equations involved; not enough time to figure out how to print all those funny mathematical symbols in HTML). Anyway, here's my solution:

# while true ; do
> wget http://games.briggster.com/media/burgertime.swf
> rm burgertime.swf
> done

*yawn* Goodnight.

Hot linking is firstly theft of bandwidth, because you deliver content to people coming to your site, whereas now you are delivering content to other peoples site.

Imagine a [real world] newspaper taking columns from another newspaper. Now, just because the technology makes it easy to do, doesn't make it right.

A 'page' is how it is represented or supposed to be represented in your browser (as some browsers could auto detect cross site linking and open up original sites etc).

Anyone could have LINKED to his site. like this but taking a bite of content here and there and framing it (in a popup) is wrong, unless you have a license to.

From what you are saying, I can have all flash games on my site, and even charge people to use it, because I am just hotlinking them.

'Jay is' website is good linking.