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Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by talmand »

Khao wrote: post #48

I 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…

I had a similar thing once. A company ripped off one of our landing page designs, even down to copyrighted material, and kept one of the little flash widgets in the footer. I showed the boss that I could take advantage of that by whiting out their page or replacing their content with whatever message we wanted.I wanted rather mean-spirited and rude messaging since it would appear to come from them. The way I remember it I was doing this by injecting javascript into the page from the SWF.

The boss never let me do it, he decided to sic the lawyers on them instead.

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by [deleted] »

pud wrote: post #15

Back 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…

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Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by benrmatthews »

rplnt wrote: post #41

And what happens when you steal images from cracked - http://www.cracked.com/blog/this-is-why-you-dont-steal-from-...

From the comments of that Cracked article:

"We had a similar problem at work, but we figured out the IP of the person doing the direct linking and dished out the images they expected to that IP, but the rest of the world saw an ad for our site."

One to consider for next time?

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by RobertKohr »

leephillips wrote: post #59
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always wondered what would happen if a rogue MS employee slipped carefully-hidden malware into Windows Update. They could cause havoc.

Wouldn't that be redundant?

Thank you for the chuckle.

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by tomelders »

crikli wrote: post #36
SocketStudios wrote: post #3

A 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…

I liked it. I also browsed the entire portfolio which is something I rarely do. This site was so effortless, I went through every piece of work on there.

As someone who was a designer, has engaged hundreds of designers in the past, and works closely with designers every day, I say well done. I would definitely ask this designer to pitch if he wasn't full time at another agency. I don't think a designer could ask for much more from a portfolio website.

In conclusion: I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by hellweaver666 »

I used to work for a hosting company and one of our customers (a magician of all things) copied our template into his webspace to build his own website - we spotted it and gave him a chance since he was a customer and all. We checked up on him a few months later and he had just done the same thing but to a different hosting provider (while still hosting with us).

Why would a magician need a template that looked like a hosting company?

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by Steuard »

SocketStudios wrote: post #3

A 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.

Using Firefox 12 with NoScript installed, your site is entirely unviewable. Even in its most permissive mode (which works for the vast majority of sites), NoScript does block cross-site scripts that it considers dangerous. On your site, I get this in my Error Console:

"[NoScript] Blocking cross-site Javascript served from http://flesler-plugins.googlecode.com/files/jquery.scrollTo-... with wrong type info application/empty, attachment; filename="jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js" and included by http://socketstudios.com/

I suspect that fixing the error mentioned there would make your site usable to more people (and more secure). But can I put in a plug for web design via progressive enhancement, rather than web design that just gives a blank grey page with a border and a few non-functional buttons if the scripts fail to load?

Re: What happens when you rip off a site but forget to host the JS yourself

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Post by nhebb »

crikli wrote: post #36
SocketStudios wrote: post #3

A 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…

> these kind of sites [...] make me want to throatpunch a baby

That's the most viscerally disturbing thing I've ever read on HN. For as popular as HN has gotten, it's still one of the more civil discussion forums on the internet. I'm not a priss, but how about a bit of decorum, please?

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