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Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking
naught writes "Fuddruckers, a hamburger chain, hotlinked to a flash game developer's Burgertime clone on their 'Fuddrockers' page. When the developer noticed an abnormal amount of traffic coming from their website, he decided to let the company know how he felt -- and maybe teach them about hotlinking.." From the post: "So, I redirected everything coming from Fuddruckers.com. (learned all about .htaccess files also... neat!) Wrote a nice little message pointing out how incredibly stupid their web developer is. And then redirected the main page to a pleasant little website showing photographs of slaughterhouses. And also opened up some more popups, for those that don't have popup blockers."
Obviously this guy wasn't a Slashdotter, or he'd have linked to our favorite image... the Goatse Guy!
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Wow, glad I'm not the only person to use this technique against bandwidth thieves. Stupid neopets and livejournal users.
I redirected all the traffic from their site back to their own site. Neopets thought we were ripping off their site, when in fact I repointed the DNS of the site they were abusing back at them.
Those modder fuddruckers! Every modder fuddurcking time I see that modder fuddrucking restaurant, I start cussing like a modder fuddrucker.
on the fuddruckers webpage isn't a very good advert for their product... really... the kid is already obese...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
From: Justin Daniels
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:056:32 -0400
To: webmaster
Subject: Complaint about your website
To Whom It May Concern;
Upon returning from a birthday party at one of your restaurants in Atlanta, my ten year old son wanted to look at the Fuddrucker's website. Normally, I am very restrictive on what Joshua may view, but I was confident that the content on your website would be child appropriate.
Much to my dismay, my son became very upset at something he saw on your site. When I went to investigate, I discovered numerous pop-up browser windows detailing how cows are killed and slaughtered, and ground into hamburger meat! This information was thrust upon him when he clicked on a link to a game called "BurgerTime" from your so-called "Fuddrockers" page, which appears to be intended for children.
My child is still upset, and it has taken my wife almost an hour to calm him down. Now he has said he will never eat a hamburger again, and has been repeatedly apologizing for helping "kill the cows".
I am absolutely appalled that you post this sort of information on your website. It is my duty, as a parent, to teach my children where meat comes from.
I can safely say that my family and I will never step foot in another Fuddrucker's restaurant after this traumatic evening.
Justin Daniels
Atlanta, Georgia
The fuddrucker effect?
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
Now how the fuck am I going to play burgertime?
Let me get this straight. Homeboy complains about his bandwidth getting jacked, thus DoSing his web server. So we slashdot him? BRILLIANT.
Sigs are for Terrorists.
Well, apparently they didn't know how to fix it either, since, now, all requests are going straight to Google.
Yep, they did it again. Now they're linking to google!
da w00t. mtfnpy?
Recently I upgraded my personal photo gallery to a new version of software, eliminating the need for a publicly accessible directory full of images. Well, since my site has been around for a few years, I've collected a goodly number of people at sites like LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, and various other sites who have taken to linking some of my full res photos (2MB-5MB each) as the background for their sites.
Most of these sites are especially crappy, and as such, the bandwidth used wasn't much, so for the time being I didn't do anything about it.
Well, with the removal of the albums directory, I decided to redirect all requests for images in it to this annoyingly animated strobing GIF. This has the wonderful affect of making many, many crappy sites blink horribly. Like this and this.
that isn't childish.
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.
I would have linked it to goatse.cx - its the only way to really make a lasting impact.
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This is kinda funny. I wonder how many blogs or whatever complain about slashdot. I wonder which one has a bigger impact, the traffic from fuddruckers.com or a slashdotting, hmm mabye by the time of the dupe he will have graphs on his blog and be complaining how much slashdot killed his bandwidth?
If you pay your taxes you support terrorism!
And the worst part was, after Fuddrucker's did all that, they went out and lustfully masturbated to pictures of his flash game, then got angry that his game was so much better than anything they could come up with, so they went off and gluttonously bathed themselves in Fuddrucker's Special Sauce to make themselves feel pretty.
So, like, wow. These guys are evil. And not just evil... but bold tagged, capital lettered, exclaimation marked, one-for-an-i'd, Kevin Spacied EV1L!
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When someone did that with my images, increasing my usage at least 10-fold, I replaced them all with goatse...
Plagiarism for profit purposes is greedy, shows undue pride, obviously Fuddrucker's web designer was envious of the Flash programmer's skill, but too slothful to acquire or implement them. Four deadly sins right there.
And in response, Mr. Briggs' own pride resulted in their actions incuring his wrath, as it was far easier to be an asshat than to deal with things in a civil maner (that's sloth). Admittedly he's only got three there, but personally I think the list should be expanded to include asshattery.
Am I the only one who sees the incredible hypocrasy of slashdotters complaining about a high traffic site hotlinking to other sites and drastically increasing bandwidth use?