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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 #147

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Author is not the distributor of the image.

I want to see this argument play out in court. He's the one specifically replacing one thing with another under some circumstance. Not the person embedding it or the one hosting the image.

Could this be solved by just adding some TOS to his site?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#183
post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to see this argument play out in court. He's the one specifically replacing one thing with another under some circumstance. Not the person embedding it or the one hosting the image.

If a man is using a telescope to look into my house to watch the football game, he does not get to be upset when I change the TV to weird inflation porn.

In a lot of jurisdictions, he does, especially if you did that knowing that he was watching.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#184

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The parasitic website is displaying the image. No iframe, no image.

Both legally and morally, intent matters far more than these technical details.

I can't answer to the law, which besides will vary - and I reject the implication that a puerile prank is immoral. But that aside, taking it on as if there was any moral dimension, moral clarity is straightforward here:

The parasite has to answer for the material it shows its visitors.

If a butcher delivers outdated meat to nowhere, knowing his van will be hijacked, how can he possibly be blamed when the hijackers sell it to their customers?

Edited to correct can (van!)

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#185

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…

agreed - it for sure would have been easier/cleaner/safer to just show a message that said "please play the official game on whatever.com"

This!!

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money. Definitely childish though.

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

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#188
post #115

Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php

does it respond with 42.zip upon submitting admin-admin?

42.gzip served directly as a response with Content-Encoding: gzip would be funnier :D

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#189
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.

Seems to me that the intent is to get people to stop stealing his IP, no?

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#190
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.

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

Vigilante justice might morally be justice, but it's still illegal
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