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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
Posts: 2578
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My vote's for 2 or 3, depending. They stole your work, so it oughtta be reported, and they should suffer the consequences for it. As for turning off hotlinking... well, it depends if this sorta thing seems like it'll be a frequent occurrence.
Out of curiosity, how'd you discover it?
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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It was in my site logs. Since he used my screenshots, I was able to follow the link back to the auction. If he had just used the screenshots, I wouldn't mind; that's why I enabled hotlinking again. However, the fact that he stole my words and didn't give me credit crosses the line.
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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Yeah, I definitely say report him. As for disabling hotlinking, I'm not sure it's worth it unless that sort of thing keeps happening.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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I might do it temporarily just to make him look like a jackass.... And since my hotlinking image drops the f-bomb, it may get his auction pulled. I e-mailed eBay about it.... I'll see what their reponse is before I make that decision.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
Posts: 989
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All right, plugs, and making people look like jackasses. That's like the two best things on the internet combined into one.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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Well, I gave eBay two hours to respond to my e-mail, but they didn't even send me an automated message saying they were looking into it. I feel that two hours should have been plenty of time for them to respond in some capacity, but they didn't. So I went ahead and decided to disallow hotlinking until the auction ends.
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
Posts: 2578
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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I feel kinda bad, but come on, that's Netiquette 101. If you reproduce someone's text, you link back to it.
If it was some kid on some blog, I wouldn't feel the need to be so vindictive. But a guy selling expensive arcade machines should know better.
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Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
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I hope it gets canned, but I will say that I laughed my head off when I loaded the eBay page and saw
FUCK YOU!
That just made my day... Eastwood style.
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"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
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B.B.King
Title: Total Fucking Loser
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Location: Truck stops and gay bars
Posts: 595
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is your material copyrighted/ is the site under a copyright?
in which case,take action now.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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Nah. it's not worth suing over.
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B.B.King
Title: Total Fucking Loser
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Location: Truck stops and gay bars
Posts: 595
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it doesn't have to be a lawsuit. its an illegal posting of your work, his ip can be permenatly banned from ebay, and they might take actions against him for breaking their code of conduct *which he agreed to follow when he accepted the agreement when he signed up*
i suggest that you email ebay again. STRESSING that it is copyrighted work being exploited for the purpose of monitary gain. Make sure you include the words CEASE AND DESIST and im sure they will get the message pretty quick.
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Jo_thepirate
Title: the Great Bob
Joined: Jan 18 2006
Location: Spammamania
Posts: 82
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man do it again, i'm a masochist and i like to piss on myself lol.. nah seriously, its really a sweet thing you did to that wannabe thief who use your article for his own credit/sale.. anyway.. it worth reporting him and hotlinking him with the big "FUCK YOU" word !!
HE GETS PWNED
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S. McCracken
Moderator
Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2171
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I just laughed my fucking balls off.
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Gushoshin
Title: guardian of death
Joined: Feb 27 2006
Location: Washington State
Posts: 135
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Syd Wrote:
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I recently enabled hotlinking in a cheap attempt to boost my traffic and now I am thinking it was a bad idea. What should I do? I have three options:
1. Disable hotlinking again, thus making the guy look like a fucking retard.
2. Report the auction.
3. Disable hotlinking AND report the auction |
Pick Door #2 Syd
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Steve Gavazzi, Marc Green
Jon Sly! It's time to play... WHICH DOUCHEBAG SAID THIS????
"I'm curious -- which mountain climber was used in Cliff Hangers?"
Happy anniversary you fucking wankers! |
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BBH
Joined: Mar 13 2006
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 49
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Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
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Now that douche bag has at least given you credit and hosting the pictures on his own.
Um... VICTORY!!!
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"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
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B.B.King
Title: Total Fucking Loser
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Location: Truck stops and gay bars
Posts: 595
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syd. im telling you,you need to email this guy and tell him to Stop using your original work. tell him to LINK to your article,but to take down any written work that is copyrighted material. i've been asking my uncle who is a lawyer about this,and he says not only is he breaching copyright laws by using your work without permissions,he's also breaching ebays code of conduct which has specific rules against the illegal use of someone elses original works.
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