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Stop! Website Thief!
Rick Zeman writes "We've all heard of people grabbing an image from this web site, ideas from that web site, or some content from yet another web site. But what do you do when someone takes your entire web site and hosts it in a foreign country? Silicon.com has an article that tells the tale of two such web sites."
1) Submit story to silicon.com /.ing.
2) Submit story to slashdot.org
3) Imagine what Car or Car's server looks like as it catches fire do to the
4) ....then, get back to work.
Left 4 Dead Gaming Group - http://www.l4dgg.com
I remember when I had my own website, and a young Cowboyneal asked to 'mirror' it for me...
Post the URL here, and then Slashdot the buggers into oblivion! Make their bandwidth bill so high that they'll beg you to take it back!
Could someone post a mirror please?
this happened to a website i had, but the idiots that ripped the site forgot to copy the stylesheet and left it linked to ours, so the next day their site was pink and purple, and a home for gay pride
There's a word for that: Macromediocrity
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
I just saw this article on www.slashdot.ex
The original site is handling the traffic worse than the offending site! =(
~Berj
what happened to flashturbation?
www.srashdot.org
Where's the WIAA when we need it?
...We emailed them via the contact page, which was the same as our own, and heard nothing back," he said. "We then contacted the authority that controls the domain and heard nothing.
Well, duh, of course. They also copied your cgi scripts....
Someone did this to /.!
I hope Rob and Co. sue their pants off! Sheesh, what audacity!
I agree. If the internet is truly the last 'wild frontier' I suggest an old west shootem up to resolve who the correct owner of the site is. We will put em to the slashdot test. Whichever site is still standing afterwords is the righfull owner.
I first saw this and thought, "what? it's not a captial 'R' is it? *bonk*" :\
Mom says my
Dude... You made a biography of CowboyNeal?
I used to love seeing people do this with images on Ebay. One guy was selling some computer equipment and linked to a picture on another guy's site. When the site owner found out, he replaced the picture with one showing the equip all smashed and ruined. It was funny as hell.
Flash .. is the same in all browsers....
Yea, in all my browsers it's a little icon that says "Click Here to Get the Plugin".
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
His resume doesn't appear to be there anymore, though. At least, the link to it comes up not found.
;-)
Of course, how do we know you're the *original* Jason Slaughter? Maybe *you* copied the resume, and want to point the blame at someone else...
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
I did that once, the guy stole graphics and content from my site, so I just linked it to his site. it took 2 weeks and the bandwidth bill killed his site. It was very effective since he was unresponsive to the first mail from me, asking him to cut it out.
Mirror site
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Hmmmmm.... They emailed themselves to complain about the copy, eh? And heard nothing back? Well now, that makes sense.
1) Set up slick website. /.'ers check your site out for the first time (many of which may like what you have and come back again in the future).
2) Set up a mirror of it in Taiwan.
3) Submit story to silicon.com and slashdot about how your website was "ripped off".
4) Watch the enormous number of hits rise as "outraged"
5) ????
6) Profit!!
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
Damn, the secret's out. Slashdot is really just one person, clacking madly away at the keyboard and pretending to be a vast community. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome will be the end of Slashdot, mark my words.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a problem for some people to distinguish between actual flamebait or trolling, and what is sometimes an honest mistake, a different sense of humor, or simply a different viewpoint. I firmly believe that potential moderators should be given a competency exam before receiving moderation privileges.
I've had that happen a number of times. Usually they strip out my name and repost what I have verbatim. Sometimes they take credit themselves. I discovered this by accident once and have noticed this ever since. I've even had slashdot comments ripped off. Whats so hard about original thought or writings anyways? If immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, whats plagarism?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
I don't mean to make fun of the victim here, but this quote is pretty funny:
"We emailed them via the contact page, which was the same as our own, and heard nothing back,"
-- Brian
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.
This is outrageous. The nerve of these people blatantly hosting this out on the open web instead of using an accepted piracy medium like Kazaa.
Outrageous!
But as I was parsing out the logs, I noticed quite a few other curious things, which led me to poke through the referer logs and start tracing some interesting hits.
..which led me to these two sites:
Both of these domains are registered in completely different states, by two completely different people, and yet... other than page color, they are identical, even down to the "testimonials" page. Whomever ripped this off from whom, can't possibly be that stupid... or can they?
Well I post the offending link on
Where oh where is my +1 Hero moderation option.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
...but on a much smaller scale. Someone had copied a popular page from my site. Tweaked the code a little but left the ad code the same. I just changed the ad for that page to be an image that read "This site will be closing soon. Click here to go to our new location." I crack myself up.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
>But what do you do when someone takes your entire web site and hosts it in a foreign country?
free international hosting.
Typical /. hypocrisy. When you misappropriate IP in the form of music, movies, and software, you say it's not "theft" -- but when someone does the same to your website, you call them thieves, and get all up at arms about it...
You just need to understand that this is one of those irregular verbs; I exercise fair usage, you plagiarize, he has just been arrested under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.