15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
11:34 a.m.
Feedback's been great -- thanks again everyone.
It's not the images I care too much about, it's the (ahem) 10,000 words of
text which is STILL posted over there:
http://www.britishinformation.com/chat/printthread.php?t=1931
The poster thinks I'm ungrateful. I say he's a lowly thief.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Curt @ Atari Museum
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:30 AM
To: General at smtp1.suscom.net; Discussion at smtp1.suscom.net :On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Bastard plagiarists
Its bad enough when people steal photo's from a site, its far worse when
they just link into your site and you get the pay the bandwidth costs so
someone can make some money, its not so bad when its one or two auctions
here or there... I had a huge spike in bandwidth usage one time and
started to investigate, I had found nearly 4 dozen Atari related auctions
running on ebay at any given time using stolen images directly linking from
my server, so I cut off access to the ebay and subset
domains from accessing my site. People on the net have gotten so used
to the "its free, its free!" mentality of the Internet, they forget that
somebody has to be paying these hosting and bandwidth bills someplace.
Curt
Doug Salot wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Roger Merchberger wrote:
I recently did this myself after somebody stole some images I was
using for an eBay listing.
You just need a simple rewrite rule. If you're running apache, you
can put something like the following in an .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
rewriteCond %{HTTP_referer} ^http://ripoff.com/pattern rewriteRule
\.*$ http://foo.bar/newimage.jpg
-- Doug
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or have
it
give different images if the Referrer for the request is his site.
That would be kewl, but I would have no idea how to set that up, and
I know my way around a webserver fairly well. Not a task for the
"technologically lighthearted." ;-) FAQs for that anywhere? ;-)
