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- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -26/+323I did that. I changed a picture of a cartoon character I'd drawn to this: http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=2748875 - Warning: Absolutely NSFW
It's quite funny seeing Myspace profiles have that picture as a tiled background and then them emailing me telling me *I'M* the bastard. - Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+216I'd mail this guy a bill for $10,000 for his "use" of your copyrighted images. Tell him that they were removed due to his lack of payment. Tell him that if you do not receive payment within 10 days, you will close his account and proceed legal proceedings for delinquency.
Hey, if the guy is dumb enough to think he can sue you for stealing your bandwidth, he might be dumb enough to think he really does owe you that money... - sixdays, on 10/12/2007, -14/+205You should not censor the mail, if the bastard is dumb enough to think he can sue you it should be an appropriate warning to people not to implore his services what ever they might be.
- squison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+184look out, you just stole his image.
- timwizard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+164http://duggmirror.com/programming/I_stole_your_bandwidth_images_and_now_I_believe_that_I_can_sue_you/im_getting_sued.gif
- johlin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+157Why did he remove the images? Would be more funny if he changed them to something else. Goatse is a bit old but maybe that'll do.
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -5/+157People think they can sue for everything. Bud, here's what i think you should do. Since he's nice enough to send you an email, reply to it telling him that he has no legal rights to the pictures but that if he wants them, he can ask nicely and that you'll email him the pictures so that he can host them on his own or put em up on an image site.
If he's being rude or nasty, just tell him to ***** off or better yet, prank him and record it all for posterity. Of course you'll have to post it here too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+131Put the images up asap. Email him and apologize. It's only the right thing to do....then wait 24 hours and replace with goatse/lemon party. Priceless.
- MatthewWilkes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+126I wouldn't count on it, when I was 17 I found a business stealing images from my website, I contacted them and was told to "live with it". So, I diverted requests from their site to a HTTP auth request, with the domain set to "w4rezandp0rn.com/illegal", which resulted in them trying to DoS the site. I then found the contact details, and phoned him up, and was hung up on, so I tried the second number given, which turned out to be the bloke's mum! Seemed he was in his early 20's, and his mother helped run the business! I explained the situation to her, and she promised to resolve it. The images were removed within the hour.
- esuomynona, on 10/12/2007, -2/+117Just specify a .htaccess redirect to goatse or tubgirl if the requests are coming from his site.
- Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+108Is it ironic that I get a 404 error on that page?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+100@sencha5
I think a page full of unicorns might be more gay than the pole smokers. - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+86Haha, oh dear, I'm a bit stupid. By linking to those Myspace sites which are hotlinking my images, I've just, in effect, dugg myself.
My connection has just come to a standstill thanks to digg users. Hah :) - CGreen, on 10/12/2007, -38/+122If kids see porn they grow up to become rapists. It's a fact, google it.
- GreenAlien, on 10/12/2007, -1/+83Well 250+ people think it's news worthy. That's how digg works.
- gblackbox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+83#1 it's tech related
#2 it's hilarious
I don't see a problem.... - whatthehell, on 10/12/2007, -9/+81I always find "What a idiot." ironic.
- Bioshocker, on 10/12/2007, -40/+109@sixdays: *****. The email should stay censored. Vigilante justice and lynch mobs were not a good idea 500 years ago and they are no better today.
Obviously the guy doesn't understand what bandwidth is and that it costs money. Better to educate him and to have a chuckle at his expense, than to destroy his business because of his simple error and his poor temper. - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67 Because it shows how people don't realize that they are stealing bandwidth (which costs you money) and they're using photos without permission.
- koolaide, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69Since that picture is about to get dugg:
http://www.bbradioonline.com/im_getting_sued.gif
Edit: Yup, it's been dugg. - tybris, on 10/12/2007, -36/+99"People think they can sue for everything. "
Slight correction: American People - Adrianc333, on 10/12/2007, -5/+66What a idiot.
He tries to make you look in the wrong, when he is taking images?
Just scare him with a few copyright laws. ;)
Or, upload several "O Rly" images...xD - bairy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61To be honest it doesn't look like a demand from a deliberate leecher, it looks like a letter from someone who has no idea (or doesn't want to) how to host the images himself. I'd go with saying "get stuffed, make your own" or if you don't mind, reply and attach them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58If I were him I would just change the images to pr0n, that would teach him.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+56Let him sue you, watch his money go down the drain
- Ragable, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55Looks like an e-mail from a 16-year-old kid. Maybe I'm being naive but are there really adults in this world who think that a threat of calling a lawyer is enough to scare somebody into submission?
Sad that people can think that the legal system is for their personal use to violate other people. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+54I wonder if it's that same tool from the city government of Buttlick, Oklahoma who threatened to call the FBI on CentOS for "hacking" his city's webserver.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/ - mattb5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Works for the RIAA
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53Just in case anyone wants to see the image I linked to 'in action' on Myspace, here's a few profile examples:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7997092 (in the comments)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=42343627 (Comments)
And for the finale:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=17143350
This guy thought he was clever changing the filename to gir2.jpg (instead of gir.jpg), but I've just changed that to this image too. - mmgm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47Wait a second. So what happens if I steal bandwidth from a gay porn website?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47Well, they change the pics to straight porn. And we don't want that now do we!
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45"are there really adults in this world who think that a threat of calling a lawyer is enough to scare somebody into submission?"
There are millions of them, unfortunately. - KingPhallus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46@anagoge
It's taking a bit of time to load up, but they finally came through. That last link is priceless.
I took a screenshot:
http://sio.midco.net/peter138/gir.jpg - clide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45I would respond with
"My lawyer can beat up your lawyer" - syowr, on 10/12/2007, -9/+51@trunkster -- you are an idiot...
There is a NSFW tag on the link and if you actually had clicked the link for the story you would get why it is funny. - kodeiko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45WOW! I was wondering what to do to people who leech my images, now I get it. Thanks!
- guice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41While I agree swapping it out with a hard pornographic image like that is a bit much ... it's bloody hilarious!
- thundercleese, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Interested in a little more background to this story. What are the two sites involved and what are the images of?
Do you intend to reply?
Is this the first communication you received about this?
etc, etc... - morcheeba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38@Bioshocker: Bullies love anonymity. Just because he's ignorant and has a poor temper doesn't give him the right to make threats.
- sencha5, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Uhhh, thanks buddy. here's a unicorn chaser for all the poor souls who got duped, even though it was probably their fault to begin with:
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/vinamorati/ - DeadlySin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Wow, there are some people who shouldn't be allowed to use the internet, this guy is one of them.
- sencha5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35@ sulaco:
Agreed, but until someone installs an eye-wash station on the internet, all we have are unicorns to make the badness stop. - troydoogle7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Whats the guys website.? Probably fake
- markormesher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Needless to say Jack Thompson anyone?
- scheper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Unfortunately, ignorance isn't linked to IQ.
- Olle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Jerry A. Taylor from the city of Tuttle, is that you?
- Schug, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32eBaumsWorld???
- Culat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25This reminds me of when Fuddruckers got caught hotlinking someone else's flash. See: http://dirigibles.livejournal.com/75781.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24At least post his website. =/
- markormesher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Or someone who is not a native english speaker. Believe it or not, quite a few people who don't speek english use the same internet tubes as we do.
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