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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by michaelmrose »

tptacek wrote: post #239
nonrandomstring wrote: post #61

Once, 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…

The users of these apps probably don't even understand what it means to hotlink someone else's resources, and, rather than simply remove the resources, you replaced them with an overtly offensive message. I'm not saying you weren't within your rights to do that, but you can't at this point high-horse and complain about the abusive emails you got as a reaction.

I don't think its possible to create a website without understanding linking.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by michaelmrose »

admax88qqq wrote: post #244
nonrandomstring wrote: post #61

Once, 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…

"I ran a server for free sound effects for all and when it got popular I fucked over my users" lolwut.

If you offer a zap sound for a game maybe 3 devs download it if they use it on their games 30,000 people might download it. Its pretty obvious one is the intended use and one is not.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by VHRanger »

pjot wrote: post #186
VHRanger wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's childish. It's very crude, but satire often is and is one effective way of driving change in society around us.

OP is merely gripping onto the Old Internet

On the other hand, visitors to the freebooting websites will see other things being gripped

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by Grangar »

balls187 wrote: post #354
jonahx wrote: post #313

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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.

You’ll feel different about collateral damage when you have children of your own.

Goatse is a right of passage and when my chuldren will inevitably stumble upon it one day I will be there to talk to them about it if they feel a need to. At the end of the day it's just a man stretching out his anus in bad lighting.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by Grangar »

Waterluvian wrote: post #309
polski-g wrote: post #283

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No one is traumatized by seeing goatse. It is a right of passage for children to become true internet denizens, in fact.

Woof. What an alternate universe you occupy.

What alternate universe? I saw goatse as a child and turned out fine.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by esquivalience »

furyofantares wrote: post #78

I 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…

Just to say, thanks for xordle. And for not serving obscenity on it.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by slikrick »

Arch-TK wrote: post #267
jtvjan wrote: post #214

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Could've made it a picture of a middle finger or whatever. Same message, but not at the risk of breaking obscenity law. That's not to say that Goatse wasn't the correct option in this case.

I'd say that regardless of what you do (aside from just blocking framing) you are likely to fall afoul of some UK law. Fun fact: UK law exists only to make sure that every person in the UK is guilty of something by the time they reach adulthood. It serves no other purpose.

completely useless nonsensical comment

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by michaelmrose »

jeroenhd wrote: post #371
plugin-baby wrote: post #154

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OTOH, people accessing the game through iframes may be in breach of the computer misuse act for unauthorised access to content.

And I'm sure the British courts will rule in the author's favour when the lawsuit is filed, but that doesn't make flashing other users legal. Then again, I doubt someone is going to file a police report, especially when the URL of the page would bring the reports to an entirely different web page in the first place.

Why would the US extradite

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by yieldcrv »

b800h wrote: post #141

I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I wouldn't do something like this for fear of falling afoul of anti-obscenity laws. For instance, the UK has a cyberflashing law which allots a two year custodial sentence for sending a graphic image (by any means) with intent to cause distress.

sounds like the sites with the iframe are liable

as there is no cyberflashing on the source website, when you go to verify

that how it ought to be, dunno uk law

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