I'm going to try not to curse. Some *EXPLETIVE* copied a sales page I made. Not only did he copy it, he hotlinked the images as well. I'm pissed right off. Buys a domain name(.info cheap skate), copies my sales page, and hot links the images. Any takers on properly handling this professional? I'm going to do the obvious htaccess thing, but I want his hosting company nail him for copyright infringement.
Someone hotlinked my images and copied some of my reviews I did a couple of weeks back. So I replaced the images on my site and wrote on the hotlinked images "Article and Image stolen from....". Contacted his hosting company and they never got back to me.... Lame.
I was thinking about putting some up like "I suck dick" or something along those lines). I'm definitely going to contact the hosting company. I should also report his damn clickbank id.
What's unnerving about this is that there is some *EXPLETIVE* watching what I do and stalking me for new pages to copy. GRRRRRR
It's not really a lesson. I'd prefer to see his hosting cut off and his clickbank account banned though.
Supper, on top or at the bottom of your landing pages or squeeze pages put a " Copyright & Earnings Disclaimer" option. So next time, they will probably think twice before they steal your content. If they still do, just report them to their hosting company.Good luck Mega
LOL, I think the idea of making nasty images is hilarious but it might get you in trouble. I'd just do as someone else suggested and put "This site is a content thief" or something like that. Definitely file a report with the hosting company and with the domain registrar. I feel for you because I hate shady people and have wankers who steal my articles and images all the time.
If you have cpanel you are able to disable hot linking. You can also change the images for hot linkers. Example, change your real image to using the cpanel hotlinker stop thing. Also, can I have the domain of the hotlinker?
This reminds me of something I did to people who were copying our sales pages. In my htaccess file I added the obvious rules for disabling hotlinking, but instead of replacing the image I wrote a rewrite rule that redirected them to our site. hehehehe..... he was using adwords as well and his ads are still showing. Stupid guy in china About the copyright thing... I've tried this and the bloody hosting company gave me such a hassle that I abandoned pursuing it and instead watched him lose money on adwords (i was tempted to use proxies and click away but didn't). Just use a nice htaccess rule and rewrite a new image that says "sorry we don't allow pirates" or something. If you can write your own rules change the last line to redirect 301/moved permanently index.php. (not sure of the syntax) It's fun screwing around with lazy people who copy our hard work.
It's when someone wants to use your image, but instead of saving it to their computer and uploading it to their host, they just directly use it. <IMG SRC=h**t://www.yoursite.com/pic.jpg> . It can't eat up a lot of bandwidth and stuff like that.
Andrew. I had no idea you get could an IMG tag to redirect to your site. Gotta figure this one out lol.
Come on man, quit BS'ing people. You can't do a redirect for an image request to a page request. If you could do that anybody could embed a 0x0 pixel invisible gif on DP (or any other forum) and redirect traffic to their own sites. A typical hotlink preventing RewriteRule *has* to include the file type. ie: I'd suggest using caution when preventing hotlinking via the .htaccess file. One noob marketer (who advertised on one of my sites) had placed banners all over the net and then got the idea to prevent hotlinking and he put a nasty image for hotlinkers. Well, his banners all started showing the nasty image with a link back to his site.
Thanks bryce. I thought it was a little odd how you could make a <IMG SRC=> redirect. I won't have a problem with the hotlinking, because I don't put my images on other sites.