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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."
I actualy think its more entertaining to see peoples reaction when telling them to go to Lemonparty.org
to me its burns the eye's more.....
Ah, but Slashdot can get away with it, why can't Fuddruckers . . oh wait . . they're an 'Evil Corporation'
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
wow. You really taught him a lesson and saved yourself 740 bytes of bandwidth at the same time.
way to go
Without the right to link, there is no web. Whiny crybabies who put things on the Internet then blubbler when someone dares to connect to them need to get a life, post haste. If you've put it on the Internet, copyright or not, you have for all intents and purposes given your precious "content" away. The sooner we all realize that, the better.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
That's absolute bull. Webmasters have the right to try and prevent it, but making something freely available via HTTP implies consent to link. The door locking analogy is completely irrelevant, unless you happen to live in a culture where it has always been customary that an unlocked front door implies permission to enter.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
I hope Fuddruckers slaps him with a libel suit for redirecting to the slaughterhouse image. Sure, it'd be meritless, but it might teach the kid a lesson about being a complete prick before it's too late.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
You're splitting hairs. If you don't want the content linked, embedded, or otherwise accessed via HTTP, either don't put it on the web or wrap it in some kind of script. It's that simple.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.