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Don't hotlink images from us. Or suffer.

Post by Cartollomew » 01 Jun 2009, 15:44

There's a new "competitor" to our business. They probably won't be around for long.

But they decided to cut a few corners - they've decided to host their site on a free provider, rather than host it themselves (not a good look for a hosting company).

They also decided that it'd be faster to build their site by using some images from an existing site. Ours.

Here's what their site looked like:
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And here's our site.

You may notice some similarities to the images on ours.

Why? Not only were they stealing our images, they were hotlinking them... loading the images directly from our site, using our bandwidth!

Naturally, we couldn't have that... so we quietly changed our images.

Check out their site now. Looks pretty good, dontcha think?

And just in case they try to fix it, here's a screenshot:
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Somebody's learned a valuable lesson!
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Post by Lellybaby » 01 Jun 2009, 15:48

lol Cart... you go girlfriend!
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Post by Zoetica » 01 Jun 2009, 15:52

This is hilarious, have they made contact with you yet?

Well played Cart :P
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Post by Mews » 01 Jun 2009, 17:07

Love your work Cart.
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Post by Kayleb » 01 Jun 2009, 17:38

+9000 internets to you sir!

its almost as good as those hacked gaming servers, ahhh a good lol to the day is always appreciated.

gooooo Cart!
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Post by Xact » 01 Jun 2009, 18:05

That's fucking epic

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Post by midi » 01 Jun 2009, 21:30

Good work Cart, awesome, haha.

They're now on imageshack... Shows how good their hosting is... ummm...?
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Post by Cartollomew » 02 Jun 2009, 02:52

midi wrote:Good work Cart, awesome, haha.

They're now on imageshack... Shows how good their hosting is... ummm...?
We've spoken to imageshack, so the images should get toasted before long.

They keep changing their layout too PSYDUCK!

Will send them a cease and desist tomorrow. Clowns.
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Post by Johnnyrico » 02 Jun 2009, 10:09

Cartollomew has achieved a new title!

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Post by Xact » 02 Jun 2009, 18:21

Wow, their site looks utterly shit now!

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Post by Cartollomew » 02 Jun 2009, 19:10

Xact wrote:Wow, their site looks utterly shit now!
Yeh, looks like they changed it twice.

I guess they still haven't figured out why imageshack removed their infringing images.

So much stupid.
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Post by midi » 02 Jun 2009, 19:46

It's like they're rotating through the templates of their web host or something.

I feel sorry for anyone that takes them seriously.
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Post by Cartollomew » 05 Jun 2009, 13:10

Update:

We found out they stole a whole tonne of copy from a UK game host, so we did the polite thing and let UK Game know.
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UKGame.com wrote: Incredible Servers

Our servers are all 8-core or 32-core very high end machines with at least 1333 MHz FSB speeds! This puts our machines at the top end of server performance.

Performance Networking

Every server is connected via Gigabit Ethernet directly into a Cisco powered core London network with extensive peering across Europe and 10 Gigabit networking! This is serious capability for a good reason.

Game Control Panel

Our control panel is fully feature packed and seriously powerful, giving you complete control of your services and never needing worry about downtime.

Crazy Pricing

Bulk buying, owning our own hardware and a healthy budget means we always offer competitive UK prices!
At least they took the time to switch "UK" to "AUS"... /sigh
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Post by midi » 05 Jun 2009, 13:13

Just call them scammers and be done with it :P
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Post by Cartollomew » 16 Jun 2009, 19:24

These guys really don't learn PSYDUCK!

http://ausevolution.qupis.com/
http://games.ausevolution.qupis.com/

Note that almost every image on that site is hotlinked from different sites.

So, okay, they do learn. Just not the right lesson.
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