Stop! Website Thief!

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 11, 2004 @07:59AM from the break-out-the-striped-jumpsuits dept.

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."

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Easy by netfool · 2004-03-11 08:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Easy:
1) Submit story to silicon.com
2) Submit story to slashdot.org
3) Imagine what Car or Car's server looks like as it catches fire do to the /.ing.

4) ....then, get back to work.

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It happens, what can you do? by jkauzlar · 2004-03-11 08:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I remember when I had my own website, and a young Cowboyneal asked to 'mirror' it for me...
Fight back! by CraigoFL · 2004-03-11 08:01 · Score: 4, Funny

But what do you do when someone takes your entire web site and hosts it in a foreign country?
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!
It's slashdotted by utahjazz · 2004-03-11 08:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Could someone post a mirror please?
This happened to by TerminalInsanity · 2004-03-11 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

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
1. Re:This happened to by wheany · 2004-03-11 08:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I did something similar. Someone embedded picture of me from my website in their post on a forum while making fun of me. I changed my .htaccess to redirect all requests for the image that had the forum's domain in their referrer to goatse.
  
  I don't think the forum moderators were pleased with the guy who made the post...
2. Re:This happened to by l1gunman · 2004-03-11 08:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I liked this response and I pulled it myself...
  
  I had an item up for auction on eBay. A luser came along and posted the same item and snagged my photo. Not only did he snag the photo - he simply linked to my original storage location on .Mac. When I discovered what he had done, I changed my own link, reshot the photo he was linking to and uploaded again. Subsequent viewers of his auction page were treated to an image of a Port Noteworthy laptop lock beneath a hand holding up the middle finger. I and a few friends got a good chuckle out of that one.
Re:first post. by The+Clockwork+Troll · 2004-03-11 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

There's a word for that: Macromediocrity

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Re:/. the bastards! by Andorion · 2004-03-11 08:07 · Score: 4, Funny

The original site is handling the traffic worse than the offending site! =(

~Berj
Japanese Slashdot!?! by dfay · 2004-03-11 08:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Someone did this to /.!

I hope Rob and Co. sue their pants off! Sheesh, what audacity!
Re:Flattered or angry? by pdbogen · 2004-03-11 08:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Dude... You made a biography of CowboyNeal?
Fighting back... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-11 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:Use Flash? by the_mad_poster · 2004-03-11 08:24 · Score: 4, Funny

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".

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Re:/. the bastards! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-11 08:35 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Contacting the copycat by MobyDisk · 2004-03-11 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

From the article (my emphasis added):
Understandably O'Donoghue was upset and tried to get in touch with the site's owners. "We emailed them via the contact page, which was the same as our own, and heard nothing back," he said.

Hmmmmm.... They emailed themselves to complain about the copy, eh? And heard nothing back? Well now, that makes sense.

From: webmaster@carenthusiast.com To: webmaster@carenthusiast.com Subject: You stole my site! Give it back! ------- From: webmaster@carenthusiast.com To: webmaster@carenthusiast.com Subject: Re: You stole my site! > Give it back! You dummy, I'm you. Email them!
New business model... by sdo1 · 2004-03-11 09:02 · Score: 4, Funny

1) Set up slick website.
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" /.'ers check your site out for the first time (many of which may like what you have and come back again in the future).
5) ????
6) Profit!!

-S

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Re:Hypocrites by drooling-dog · 2004-03-11 09:18 · Score: 4, Funny

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...
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.