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'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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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:/. 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!