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Artist => Copyrights/Trade Marks info/questions => Topic started by: Tagless Threads on February 24, 2012, 05:15:48 AM
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We just got word of another printer stealing our website content. I went to visit the site and it turns out to be a lot worse than I expected. They were so lazy they couldn't even try to re-write the content-not even a little bit. They even missed a back link to our site and pictures with our logo ::). They took our old About Us content, T-shirt 101 Page content, Artwork Requirement Content, multiple pictures, multiple banners, header source code, design tutorial, our slogan, and our authorize.net image which is not (of course) verified.
Why would any company want to be caught doing this? Is it really worth the risk to be lazy? Or perhaps I am mistaking laziness for their lack of originality. Isn't it embarrassing? This is the fourth time I've caught a company doing this; and it is far from flattering. We put hours upon hours of hard work into this content and graphic artwork to better our company; not help these deadbeats.
Check out the attachment pictures
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threadless,
That’s funny I just posted that someone stole my stuff too. Go to www.copyscape.com (http://www.copyscape.com) and put your website in and it will highlight everything they stole. It will also show you other people that stole from you. I have had 4 guys do it in the last 3 years.
Jon
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threadless,
That’s funny I just posted that someone stole my stuff too. Go to [url=http://www.copyscape.com]www.copyscape.com[/url] ([url]http://www.copyscape.com[/url]) and put your website in and it will highlight everything they stole. It will also show you other people that stole from you. I have had 4 guys do it in the last 3 years.
Jon
Yeah copyscape.com is a great tool. It helped me find another printer who stole our terms of service content. Somehow they forgot to take our name out of the terms. I would have liked to see them try to protect themselves with those terms ha ha.
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That's nuts! I'm guilty of a few stick pictures but nothing to that degree, big balls. Now I have looked at site for lay out and content help but not straight up copy and paste.
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That is just sad. What company is it? I don't think there's harm in pointing a finger so others might steer clear of them in business and friendship lol.
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You guys just need to make a sight that sucks and nobody will steal it. ;D
I think you should rat them out here so we can see who they are. Or even better we can all call them for quotes all day and tie up their phone lines.
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Is there any chance that they paid someone to develope a site for them... and the contractor stole your content, without telling the purchaser ??
I can picture it happening this way:
Man, I need to get a website
Hey, my nephew dickwad is an Ace at that
Cool what does he charge ?
Oh... he's really cheap and he's really fast
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Is there any chance that they paid someone to develope a site for them... and the contractor stole your content, without telling the purchaser ??
I can picture it happening this way:
Man, I need to get a website
Hey, my nephew dickwad is an Ace at that
Cool what does he charge ?
Oh... he's really cheap and he's really fast
I had that happen one of the times on my site. The guy had no clue. He got his money back....well that is what he told me happened.
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You guys just need to make a sight that sucks and nobody will steal it. ;D
I think you should rat them out here so we can see who they are. Or even better we can all call them for quotes all day and tie up their phone lines.
ha ha thanks for the advice. You can see the company name on the last attachment I uploaded. I've called them but they don't pick up, I'm sure they are too busy stealing other peoples content :D . I just want to get them on the phone and congratulate them on their creative looking website.
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
(http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png)
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
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Tagless, I have seen your logo (Or very close to your logo) on a few sites.
If I stumble upon it again, I will let you know.
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ugggg that is just sad. Stick it to them as best as you can.
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
([url]http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png[/url])
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
WOW there it is <img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png" alt="" width="184" height="94">
Yes!! change it up that would be great the guy would prob think he was hacked lmfao
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They have inksoft website. Contact Ryonet and tell them you wants this taken down now or you'll sue. :P
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
([url]http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png[/url])
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
no link it to gay porn....hahaha
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
([url]http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png[/url])
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
no link it to gay porn....hahaha
Link it to this Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J659hiXiUbM#)
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Me personally I would contact their ISP they should at that point with proof drop them like a hot potato that would hen cause them a major hassle and some bucks to reset up a web site with a new ISP.
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We just got word of another printer stealing our website content. I went to visit the site and it turns out to be a lot worse than I expected. They were so lazy they couldn't even try to re-write the content-not even a little bit. They even missed a back link to our site and pictures with our logo ::). They took our old About Us content, T-shirt 101 Page content, Artwork Requirement Content, multiple pictures, multiple banners, header source code, design tutorial, our slogan, and our authorize.net image which is not (of course) verified.
Why would any company want to be caught doing this? Is it really worth the risk to be lazy? Or perhaps I am mistaking laziness for their lack of originality. Isn't it embarrassing? This is the fourth time I've caught a company doing this; and it is far from flattering. We put hours upon hours of hard work into this content and graphic artwork to better our company; not help these deadbeats.
Check out the attachment pictures
Man that sucks. It happens to us to. The problem is you have great design on your site. I'm not saying that's ok, but that's why it happens i bet.
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If your really concerned that people are hot-linking images from your website, there is a simple piece of code you can insert into your .htaccess file that will not only reject the links, but if you carefully craft it can insert any image you desire. Content scrapers as they are called are much, MUCH more common than you think and not all of it is malicious....in fact some of it can actually HELP your site become higher in Google page serps (ranking) and some is done from RSS feeds that some people who use Wordpress fail to understand allows other sites to display their content unless you actually disable RSS. At very least with some security modification as noted below, it will require a person to actually manually copy your content...and there are even ways to block that if you wish to use advanced server side scripting.
Below is a script sample, simply alter the image file to reflect the name of the one you wish to serve up when your hot-linked. Insert into the top of your .htaccess file in the root of your websites server directory.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?your-website\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://your-website.com/replacement-image.jpg [L]
You could serve up this image if you want.
You can also block known harvesting programs or "bots" from scrapping your content which also adds another layer of security I might add to your site by using another .htaccess set of codes below ** FAIR WARNING - I developed this code for my server, and it might require modification to work in another server environment. If you get a server 500 error, just remove it and restore your htaccess file. You MUST have mod_rewrite enabled on your server for these to work.
#-Block Insecure Server Requests
#
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (\\r|\\n|%0A|%0D) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
#
#-Filter URL Based Exploits
#
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\: [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} proc/self/environ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
#
#-Bad Bot/Spider Blocker
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*aiHitBot.$|^.*AhrefsBot.$|^.*AISearchBot.*$|^.*AlphaServer.*$|^.*Avant.$|^.*Babya.*$|^.*Beta.*$|^.*bsalsa.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*CaSpEr.*$|^.*ccbot.*$|^.*CFNetwork.*$|^.*curl.*$|^.*Data\ Access.*$|^.*DataCha0s.*$|^.*DBLBot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*discovery.*$|^.*EAK01AG9.*$|^.*eSyndiCat.$|^.*Firefox/3.*$|^.*FREE.*$|^.*Gootkit.*$|^.*GrubNG.*$|^.*Library.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*JadynAveBot.*$|^.*Jakarta.*$|^.*Java/.*$|^.*kmccrew.*$|^.*KwsAgent.*$|^.*KTXN.*$|^.*larbin.*$|^.*libcurl.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*libghttp.*$|^.*librabot.*$|^.*libwww-perl.*$|^.*LWP::Simple.*$|^.*Maxthon.*$|^.*MetaBot.*$|^.*MJ12bot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*MLBot.*$|^.*Morfeus.*$|^.*MRSPUTNIK.*$|^.*Nikto.*$|^.*Nutch.*$|^.*OurBrowser.*$|^.*panscient.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Pathtraq.*$|^.*PHP.*$|^.*Plesk.*$|^.*POE.*$|^.*Project.*$|^.*proximic.*$|^.*Purebot.*$|^.*PycURL.*$|^.*Python.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*PeoplePal.*$|^.*rganalytics.*$|^.*ru).*$|^.*ScoutJet.*$|^.*SheenBot.*$|^.*SiteBot.*$|^.*sslbot.*$|^.*spbot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Survey.*$|^.*Toata.$|^.*TrustKeeper.*$|^.*Twiceler.$|^.*Twotrees.*$|^.*unix.*$|^.*vbseo.*$|^.*webcollage.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Wget.*$|^.*WinHTTP.*$|^.*WinInet.*$|^.*Yandex.*$|^.*Yanga.*$|^.*Yeti.*$|^.*zibber.*$|^.*(R1\ 1.5)).*$|^.*ZmEu.*$
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
#
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We just got word of another printer stealing our website content. I went to visit the site and it turns out to be a lot worse than I expected. They were so lazy they couldn't even try to re-write the content-not even a little bit. They even missed a back link to our site and pictures with our logo ::). They took our old About Us content, T-shirt 101 Page content, Artwork Requirement Content, multiple pictures, multiple banners, header source code, design tutorial, our slogan, and our authorize.net image which is not (of course) verified.
Why would any company want to be caught doing this? Is it really worth the risk to be lazy? Or perhaps I am mistaking laziness for their lack of originality. Isn't it embarrassing? This is the fourth time I've caught a company doing this; and it is far from flattering. We put hours upon hours of hard work into this content and graphic artwork to better our company; not help these deadbeats.
Check out the attachment pictures
Man that sucks. It happens to us to. The problem is you have great design on your site. I'm not saying that's ok, but that's why it happens i bet.
Yeah it's not flattering. I've seen far worse copies though, like using the employee photos ha ha. Freaking suspects 8)
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
([url]http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png[/url])
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
no link it to gay porn....hahaha
Link it to this Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J659hiXiUbM#[/url])
HAAAAAAAAAAAA what is wrong with you why would have that lmfao
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Hey Tagless,
He's linking directly to this image:
([url]http://www.taglessthreads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/discount-and-specials-button2.png[/url])
Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 8)
I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...
no link it to gay porn....hahaha
Link it to this Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J659hiXiUbM#[/url])
HAAAAAAAAAAAA what is wrong with you why would have that lmfao
ha ha! man you guys are hilarious. I swear, the next jabroni that wants to steal our content is gonna get something.
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jabroni, that is an awesome word