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What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
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Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#42All I see is an "Index of /" page with a link to a folder called videoflow (now changed to 3333). Did the owners take it down? Does anybody have a screenshot they can share?
Yes. There used to be a page with a picture of a dog.
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#43A little backstory: They stole my site (socketstudios.com) which showed up on my analytics as they for got to remove it. They also left the contolling javascript file on my server. I modified it to load images of dogs that have no idea what they are doing.
Tangent: these kind of sites (the site that was stolen from), I'll call them "concept" sites, make me want to throatpunch a baby. If you are seeking to demonstrate your jQuery/HTML5/CSS3 skillz then do it in a way that has some applicable context. Don't break so far from established usage conventions that users have to invest their the majority of their focus figuring out the site at the expense of examining the cont…
Thanks for that.
It was a 'concept' site largely for my own amusement (and to teach myself a little bit of js). I do have a private portfolio site that shows more of my work and has no javascript in it at all.
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#44Back in the late 90's when Cnet was really big, they embedded a video -- which was hosted on my server -- into one of their articles. Without asking. I found out because my hosting company called me and said I was about to get a huge bill. Bandwidth was super expensive back then and there was no YouTube for free video hosting. I changed the file to a short clip of hardcore porn. I know it was mean. But it was funny a…
You should have introduced just a few frames of porn like they do in Fight Club :-)
Anyway you made my day. Did Cnet pay the bill?
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#45All I see is an "Index of /" page with a link to a folder called videoflow (now changed to 3333). Did the owners take it down? Does anybody have a screenshot they can share?
Yes. There used to be a page with a picture of a dog.
Can someone dig up the page from browser cache and put up a screenshot for those who missed it?
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangent: these kind of sites (the site that was stolen from), I'll call them "concept" sites, make me want to throatpunch a baby. If you are seeking to demonstrate your jQuery/HTML5/CSS3 skillz then do it in a way that has some applicable context. Don't break so far from established usage conventions that users have to invest their the majority of their focus figuring out the site at the expense of examining the cont…
Thanks for that. It was a 'concept' site largely for my own amusement (and to teach myself a little bit of js). I do have a private portfolio site that shows more of my work and has no javascript in it at all.
Hmm, I kinda like it - and I tend to dislike sites that break conventions... its simple enough that it works really well for me.
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#47Once upon a time there was a dude that had the bright idea to hotlink the swf mediaplayer that I was hosting. Besides wasting my bandwidth, it also wasted my time for tracking all the referrals where he used the code. Long story short, he got a flash-based XSS in response. For the lulz.
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#48I remember I had a website once where I had a little clock widget that I made in flash. I discovered that some of the traffic to my website was coming from myspace and found out that someone had used my widget on their myspace page. I changed the code in my widget to detect which url it was loaded from and if it wasn't on my website, it would simply crash and back then, flash didn't have the 30 second timeout when a script becomes unresponsive, you really had to kill the browser to exit.
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#49Back in the late 90's when Cnet was really big, they embedded a video -- which was hosted on my server -- into one of their articles. Without asking. I found out because my hosting company called me and said I was about to get a huge bill. Bandwidth was super expensive back then and there was no YouTube for free video hosting. I changed the file to a short clip of hardcore porn. I know it was mean. But it was funny a…
bahahahahaha!! Do you have any stats?; number of views before the link was taken off?
Please tell me it was something stupid like a few hundred thousand views
huge grin
Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself
#50Back in the late 90's when Cnet was really big, they embedded a video -- which was hosted on my server -- into one of their articles. Without asking. I found out because my hosting company called me and said I was about to get a huge bill. Bandwidth was super expensive back then and there was no YouTube for free video hosting. I changed the file to a short clip of hardcore porn. I know it was mean. But it was funny a…
I assume you had the rights to the porn? :)