Most recently, a person called Cleo, who also goes by the misnomer “sexy1980”, stole both words and pictures from a heartfelt entry I wrote after a particularly hard day. Word-for-word. You see that car on her site? That’s my car.
If you dare to look at this abortion of a web page, do so at your own risk. I warn you, the animations and colours are not for the feint of heart.
I wasn’t happy when someone started copying entire entries of mine, word-for-word, or when another person stole my design of Version 10 (his attempted redesign in an effort to cover up his actions isn’t that far off either). Sure, I also get people hotlinking my images too, but I take simple pleasure in replacing the images with pictures of a lemon party, because I get to laugh at things like this.
But when someone steals both my words and hotlinks my pictures I get really pissed off.
This is most likely not a she at all and that text is probably cribbed as well. It comes up as “blocked site” at my workplace, who knows what keys to porn sites lurk.
It could just be a RSS2Web aggregator spam site. Where the site has no content of its own, but simply grabs fed content from other blog sites. It’s happened to me a few times.
The funniest graphic hotlinking story I’ve heard, sadly came from one of our presidential candidate:
http://correntewire.com/saint_john_mccain_myspace_site_hacked_by_designer_whose_work_and_bandwidth_he_stole
Common sense, just isn’t too common sometimes.
All of the blog entries have been made private now.
@Xibee — It seems like an attempt at a legitimate journal, but not legitimate enough (with inconsistencies in things like writing and photography style) to not be caught stealing.
@Jin — The way the titles were modified and images re-used shows that a human spent time trying to fit the content into her site. Quite unfortunate. There have been RSS scrapers that have taken content from me, they’re very obviously spam sites with the number of ads and no personality.
I love the way that designer got back at McCain. People should really know better.
@trolley — I noticed that too; kind of confirms her guilt now, doesn’t it? Good thing Google Cache still has a copy (and I have the screenshot).
heh, good link Jin.
One of her jackass friends on there had the nerve to call me a “sicko” on my profile on that shitty site for calling her out. Hah. I see he called you a “troll” too. Pathetic.
Your PC ID is being issued to all service providers by Multiply as a result of your obscene and slanderous remarks.
This should result in you being banned from all social sites and ( hopefully ) the internet in general.
My advice to you my friend is to seek medical help — you obviously need it very badly.
Good luck.
-plat0
@plat0 — Hahahhhahahhhahaha.
Bahahahahaha…not your PC ID! That’s super duper secret isn’t it? I thought I was anonymous on the internet!
Also, apprently plat0 still doesn’t understand the meaning of the term “slander”. Let’s track him down by his PC ID and mail him a dictionary.
LOL.
But is that even possible? Banning from the internet?
It most certainly isn’t, but apparently Mr. New World Order doesn’t understand that.
I think this will be a useful htaccess for you
Options +FollowSymlinks
# Protect Hotlinking
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domainname\.com/ [nc]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://domainname.com/img/hotlink_f_o.png [nc]