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- BadDolphin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Someone did the exact same thing to a congressman, I believe it was Orrin Hatch. In any case, the congressman said he wanted a technology that would allow the RIAA et al to remotely destroy the HARDWARE of machines they suspected of violating copyright.
The congresscritter had an an image on the site that pulled from a domain that had expired and wasn't renewed, so someone registered it, pointed dns to their web server, created the directory of the name required, and put up an obscene image using the same filename. Result? Nudie pic on the congressman's site. - Hiker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually, I can't help thinking this might have some relevence here:
http://digg.com/links/Preventing_Image_Bandwidth_Theft_With_.htaccess - nihilator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Nice one... too bad he did it because he was racist and the leeching was just an excuse."
posted by xutopia
Racist? Since when is France a different RACE? - waiwai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Very lame. Most of the time this is done, it's because the hot linker is ignorant, not malicious. I've emailed places with a hot link to my site before and often they are apologetic. Someone did something wrong, probably by accident, and instead of helping them over the technological bump you just kick them in the face. It's kind of sad what a ***** place the internet is becoming.
You also hurt the image of your own site by doing so, since anyone seeing the pic you changed it to will think your site not much better than goatse. If you had restrained yourself and just stuck the url on the bottom of the image you could have gotten a lot of traffic from news seeking people, who have a chance of revisiting and becoming regulars. - matsiescruff, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9meh. it was pretty funny until all the stupid french jokes. stop making fun of people for their nationalities. no, i'm not french at all. i just think it's stupid and ignorant to think you're somehow better than this guy coz he's french.
- Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@coxon:
The blog and the prank itself are in no way racist. The post itself is just a prank on a guy who HAPPENS to be from France. The people that make the remarks have no bearing on the news post or prank itself. - cyberprashant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3funny thing is if he was saving bandwith, he just got digg-dotted.
- bernardroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3All of his other "articles" use images from all over the net too.
http://blogs.zdnet.fr/?cat=17
I thought I read about this happening to another guy from a different ZDnet person earlier this year. - rigg419, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3man all you bashers should keep this in mind. They guy works for a tech mag. zdnet isn't like martha's wicker baskets emporium, it's all about tech.. The guy should have known better, and it's not like the op nuked his website, he just replaced the hotlinked pic with another one. What did ZD expect?
- clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wow. Dangle the word "French" in front of some yanks and they become drooling rednecks.
- djhifisi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wow, check out all the racsist ***** on the posts, amazing! America just makes me sad man. Xenophobic and little cruel minds. Shame.
- gildude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most likely he used some editor like FrontPage or something that when he thought he was copying and pasting the pic it hotlinked it and he didn't know any better. No need to ascribe evil to what was probably just stupidity.
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:RrnIFQei9u4J:blogs.zdnet.fr/index.php/2005/12/02/nouvelle-xbox-et-enieme-coup-de-queue-up-marketing/+Suis+toujours+%C3%A9tonn%C3%A9+par+ces+sujets+de+la+presse+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9raliste,+couvrant+les+sorties+de+produits+ou+nouveaut%C3%A9s.&hl=en
^^ Google cache for those that missed it. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3oh my god....
you just got that guy fired...the article is still on there....he;'s gone...
hahahaha - Jessehk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The comments on his blog are some of the most ignorant, stupid, and racist remarks I have ever seen. Pitiful.
- DokCal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The same thing happened to some folks with Halloween how-to sites... except that jerk was selling the freely-available how-tos on eBay!
The original authors replaced the pics with a note telling the eBayers that they had been ripped off, and notified eBay.
I mean, if you're going to steal content, at least have the decency to copy it to your own server! - thebeck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This is the funniest thing I've seen all day.
- kwoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wish the commenting system would rate comments by weighting them
proportionally to the weight I've given to other users. So for example,
if a user that I've got at (7) weights another user's comment a -2,
that would be taken into account when determining the default
comment rating. Not sure if that makes sense. I just mean a way
of using the ratings of people who think like me, so that for example
I don't have to see this ignorant adolescent nonsense. - MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What an ass munch.
A guy that did a burgertime game in flash found that Fuddruckers.com had hot linked to his game without notice or permission. It was in the family/kids section of the site. Nice touch, right? The guy ended up swapping out the burgertime game with a buttload of pop-ups that were pics of slaughterhouses. Not sure if it made digg. It was before i got here, but it did get /. Though a lot of people praised his action against the man, many questioned whether it was in good taste or even if HE had permission to port the game to flash since he did not design the original. - Xenephrene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OMG it's an OUTRAGE! 2800+ diggs? Come on. Shoot first, eh Bryant? I tend to agree with an earlier comment that is was the fault of a lazy sub-editor at ZDNet.
- kwoff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It was amusing (though nothing new),
but the anti-Frenchness was really ignorant and ruined it,
just like it ruins this forum. - noteventime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He could have chosen a funnier image (something that had to do with leeching) but a fun idea anyhow.
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4lol.. nice nice nice.
- BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3This is the funniest thing I've seen on the net, period!
- LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hilarious, but don't blame all of france because of 1 monkey.
- sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1damn funny. good work :)
and btw, leech and leach are both words. they have similar meanings.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=leach http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=leech - thidranki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how did this story not make diggnation?
- Teltel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool revenge
but the comments are too ugly to read :( - Wenz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks for the laugh!!! This was great!
- overlook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*ignorant
dammit I click on check spelling, NOT submit comment... you get the idea though... - BlazinX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1niice PWN4GE
- Metal_Hurlant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm surprised people mention goatse, and the GNAA gets no mention at all.
A commenter asked how you can figure you're being leeched on, beside waiting for your monthly ISP bill and freaking out at that time.
If you have access to your raw web server logs, write a small script to extract the referer field, remove entries that are empty or start with your own domain, and sort |uniq -c | sort | tail -30 the result to see where your site is getting most of its traffic from.
You can refine that by filtering out the search part or even the path part of the referer URLs.
You can also prefilter the server log by grepping for '.jpg|.png|.gif' to only get links to images, as opposed to legitimate links. - frogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> @frogg
> "moron", moron. =8^P
> posted by chabuhi (0)
I take it you've never seen this picture:
http://prague.tv/galleries/funny-pics7/get-a-brain.jpg
moran=moron, leach=leech. Obvious comparison.
Is digg not hip to internet memes? - chabuhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@frogg
"moron", moron. =8^P - candre23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You fail at spelling and grammar.
- docmanhattan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1maybe not the nicest thing to do, but a tech writer should know better.
digg++ for the object lesson given. - Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm thinking this is gonna get covered in the next diggnation ( ^_^ )
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm thinking maybe make a honeypot with the PHP script on here earlier today. Give the foreign Referer a few dozen or maybe a few hundred views, or just wait for the email to arrive, then substitute a different picture or redirect to goatse or something equally as horrific. Probably better to write it in mod_perl that way you wouldn't have to have .php in the name it could just be a handler for the filename.jpg file.
- FiP0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You must be confused.
- canyonblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Most likely he used some editor like FrontPage or something that when he thought he was copying and pasting the pic it hotlinked it and he didn't know any better. No need to ascribe evil to what was probably just stupidity."
- you are likely right. however as an author of online material at a major online computer publishing house he should know better. now he does and i bet he won't do this again will he. his mistake cost the user bandwidth, and it isn't the first time the author has done it. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yikes, not work safe. :I
- bongo69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Nice story, just shocked at the level xenophobia in the comments.
I guess the American media is the cause of this, greatly influencing suggestable peoples opinions. - lampy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Someone did the exact same thing to a congressman, I believe it was Orrin Hatch. In any case, the congressman said he wanted a technology that would allow the RIAA et al to remotely destroy the HARDWARE of machines they suspected of violating copyright.
The congresscritter had an an image on the site that pulled from a domain that had expired and wasn't renewed, so someone registered it, pointed dns to their web server, created the directory of the name required, and put up an obscene image using the same filename. Result? Nudie pic on the congressman's site."
Happen to have a link to the images/cache? - hcsteve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I just spit beer all over my monitor. Thanks :)
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Do you know the model whose body you used? Unless you have permission to use that image, you're a leach, too! And if you intentionally stole that image (as opposed to the accident that probably occured from the ZD-net person), then you're even more culpable than he is!"
...sigh. It's the fact that it was HOTLINKED, not the fact that it was COPIED. Big difference. - FelixdaaHack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is the reason DIGG exists...not just to rehash popular media stories
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lol too funny.. i am going to sue zdnet for cuasingme distress at seeing that image
- xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3what I find especially appaling is the reason he did that was to piss off a "French ass".
Nice one... too bad he did it because he was racist and the leeching was just an excuse. - capajc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is almost as good as the Burgertime Flash game leech that Fuddruckers pulled...if I remember, _that_ guy redirected to a bunch of cattle abattoire photos.
This is good, too :) - 1337codemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You should charge them the ammount a traffic that was caused by the hotlinking of that image on your server.
This may not seem like much money, but if you were close on your monthly, then each gig over that could cost huge amounts!
Send a letter and be all offical and stuff. -
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