Kind of reminds me of the guy who owned graphics.com who would get requests from people who wrote //graphics/foo.gif instead of /graphics/foo.gif (Netscape and/or IE would, in those days, transform graphics into graphics.com when it couldn’t find the domain graphics). He set it up so that he would serve up an image informing the consumer that they had a malformed link and would get angry emails from webmasters (remember that term?) claiming he had hacked their sites.
Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your joke really flips the meaning of the lucky 10000. Nicely done.
This is the "Lucky Pierre" type of lucky. If you don't know what that is, you might not want to search it.
None of these seem particularly horrifying?
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#313I run three word games, this stuff happens for all of them. It sucks but I would never do what they did, it's abusive to the people who just googled your game and ended up on the wrong site. I've had teachers and students reach out to me to say they play my game in class every day together. And parents who play with their kids every day, and adult who text their results to each other every day. It sucks if they end u…
Devil's advocate: OPs approach is a form of inoculation against the ad-powered Internet. The experience may not be pleasant, but drives the right message and quite memorably so.
100%, and not just as devil's advocate. Let the punishment fit the crime.
My sympathies are entirely on the side of the game's author. It's just an obscene image -- the "collateral damage" in this case is perfectly acceptable and imo fair because it damages the brands of the illegal hosters.
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#314Once, out of the kindness of my foolish heart, I ran a server with a lot of great sound effects for all and sundry to download. Eventually the bandwidth was getting hammered by a huge number of leechers seemingly from some apps that had simply hard-linked to the resources. After replacing said resources [0] they soon ceased but not without a slew of abusive and entitled emails demanding I restore the SFX. Oh fun time…
In the days of P2P file sharing I used to share files with file names and metadata indicating they were rare Metallica live recordings of Metallica songs and other metal band's songs.... but instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0 So many downloads.
Oh, hello Lars Ulrich!
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Life is a meaningless crawl towards the heat death of the universe. Childish behavior is the most appropriate attitude one can have towards most things.
I wish there was still more of a genuine whimsical side to the Internet or even businesses. The attention economy isn't the same.
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#316Your website has the worst permalinks ever.
Similar idea to itty.bitty.site, smolsite.zip, or parameter.page
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#317Somebody is doing something similar to my Chrome extension. They stole the (minified) code, slapped their own logo on top of it and started selling it. I filed a DMCA takedown request at Google and they removed the extension. Then the guy reuploaded the extension again with a slightly different UI. But I can still see that the underlying code is all mine!
Why not timebomb the minified code and reupload updates to the marketplace plus a grace period for late updaters?
Ok, they could automate that, too. You'd need to checksum something from within. Where the problem arises: how to know the checksum before the code was fully minified.
I think there are companies, that specialized on tamper-proofing js-code with a lot of crazy tech, i lost some bookmarks for this and couldn't find it right now.
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#318Why not just "out" them and provide a link to the original domain?
"To play Sqword, please visit directly. You are currently visiting a site that has put ads around the original game without the game creator's consent."
By replacing it with goatse, a number of people will think, "I wanted to play Sqword but now it's pornographic" and never play again.