Website Content Thieves Are Lazy

[jesterapparel]

Hey Tagless,

He's linking directly to this image:


Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 

I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...

no link it to gay porn....hahaha

Link it to this

Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas

[inkman996]

Me personally I would contact their ISP they should at that point with proof drop them like a hot potato that would hen cause them a major hassle and some bucks to reset up a web site with a new ISP.

[inkbrigade]

We just got word of another printer stealing our website content. I went to visit the site and it turns out to be a lot worse than I expected. They were so lazy they couldn't even try to re-write the content-not even a little bit. They even missed a back link to our site and pictures with our logo . They took our old About Us content, T-shirt 101 Page content, Artwork Requirement Content, multiple pictures, multiple banners, header source code, design tutorial, our slogan, and our authorize.net image which is not (of course) verified.

Why would any company want to be caught doing this? Is it really worth the risk to be lazy? Or perhaps I am mistaking laziness for their lack of originality. Isn't it embarrassing? This is the fourth time I've caught a company doing this; and it is far from flattering. We put hours upon hours of hard work into this content and graphic artwork to better our company; not help these deadbeats.

Check out the attachment pictures

Man that sucks. It happens to us to. The problem is you have great design on your site. I'm not saying that's ok, but that's why it happens i bet.

[Prōdigium]

If your really concerned that people are hot-linking images from your website, there is a simple piece of code you can insert into your .htaccess file that will not only reject the links, but if you carefully craft it can insert any image you desire. Content scrapers as they are called are much, MUCH more common than you think and not all of it is malicious....in fact some of it can actually HELP your site become higher in Google page serps (ranking) and some is done from RSS feeds that some people who use Wordpress fail to understand allows other sites to display their content unless you actually disable RSS. At very least with some security modification as noted below, it will require a person to actually manually copy your content...and there are even ways to block that if you wish to use advanced server side scripting.

Below is a script sample, simply alter the image file to reflect the name of the one you wish to serve up when your hot-linked. Insert into the top of your .htaccess file in the root of your websites server directory.

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?your-website\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://your-website.com/replacement-image.jpg [L]

You could serve up this image if you want.


You can also block known harvesting programs or "bots" from scrapping your content which also adds another layer of security I might add to your site by using another .htaccess set of codes below ** FAIR WARNING - I developed this code for my server, and it might require modification to work in another server environment. If you get a server 500 error, just remove it and restore your htaccess file. You MUST have mod_rewrite enabled on your server for these to work.

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#-Block Insecure Server Requests
#
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} (\\r|\\n|%0A|%0D) [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
#
#-Filter URL Based Exploits
#
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on   
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp\: [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} proc/self/environ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
#
#-Bad Bot/Spider Blocker 
#
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*aiHitBot.$|^.*AhrefsBot.$|^.*AISearchBot.*$|^.*AlphaServer.*$|^.*Avant.$|^.*Babya.*$|^.*Beta.*$|^.*bsalsa.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*CaSpEr.*$|^.*ccbot.*$|^.*CFNetwork.*$|^.*curl.*$|^.*Data\ Access.*$|^.*DataCha0s.*$|^.*DBLBot.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*discovery.*$|^.*EAK01AG9.*$|^.*eSyndiCat.$|^.*Firefox/3.*$|^.*FREE.*$|^.*Gootkit.*$|^.*GrubNG.*$|^.*Library.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*JadynAveBot.*$|^.*Jakarta.*$|^.*Java/.*$|^.*kmccrew.*$|^.*KwsAgent.*$|^.*KTXN.*$|^.*larbin.*$|^.*libcurl.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*libghttp.*$|^.*librabot.*$|^.*libwww-perl.*$|^.*LWP::Simple.*$|^.*Maxthon.*$|^.*MetaBot.*$|^.*MJ12bot.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*MLBot.*$|^.*Morfeus.*$|^.*MRSPUTNIK.*$|^.*Nikto.*$|^.*Nutch.*$|^.*OurBrowser.*$|^.*panscient.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Pathtraq.*$|^.*PHP.*$|^.*Plesk.*$|^.*POE.*$|^.*Project.*$|^.*proximic.*$|^.*Purebot.*$|^.*PycURL.*$|^.*Python.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*PeoplePal.*$|^.*rganalytics.*$|^.*ru).*$|^.*ScoutJet.*$|^.*SheenBot.*$|^.*SiteBot.*$|^.*sslbot.*$|^.*spbot.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Survey.*$|^.*Toata.$|^.*TrustKeeper.*$|^.*Twiceler.$|^.*Twotrees.*$|^.*unix.*$|^.*vbseo.*$|^.*webcollage.*$ [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Wget.*$|^.*WinHTTP.*$|^.*WinInet.*$|^.*Yandex.*$|^.*Yanga.*$|^.*Yeti.*$|^.*zibber.*$|^.*(R1\ 1.5)).*$|^.*ZmEu.*$
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
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[Tagless Threads]

We just got word of another printer stealing our website content. I went to visit the site and it turns out to be a lot worse than I expected. They were so lazy they couldn't even try to re-write the content-not even a little bit. They even missed a back link to our site and pictures with our logo . They took our old About Us content, T-shirt 101 Page content, Artwork Requirement Content, multiple pictures, multiple banners, header source code, design tutorial, our slogan, and our authorize.net image which is not (of course) verified.

Why would any company want to be caught doing this? Is it really worth the risk to be lazy? Or perhaps I am mistaking laziness for their lack of originality. Isn't it embarrassing? This is the fourth time I've caught a company doing this; and it is far from flattering. We put hours upon hours of hard work into this content and graphic artwork to better our company; not help these deadbeats.

Check out the attachment pictures

Man that sucks. It happens to us to. The problem is you have great design on your site. I'm not saying that's ok, but that's why it happens i bet.

Yeah it's not flattering. I've seen far worse copies though, like using the employee photos ha ha. Freaking suspects

[sweetts]

Hey Tagless,

He's linking directly to this image:


Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 

I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...

no link it to gay porn....hahaha

Link it to this Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas

HAAAAAAAAAAAA what is wrong with you why would have that lmfao

[Tagless Threads]

Hey Tagless,

He's linking directly to this image:


Change that image to say something awesome and rename/relink the one on your site 

I can think of a few suggestions if you'd like...

no link it to gay porn....hahaha

Link it to this Fat guy dancing Black Eye peas

HAAAAAAAAAAAA what is wrong with you why would have that lmfao

ha ha! man you guys are hilarious. I swear, the next jabroni that wants to steal our content is gonna get something.

[mk162]

jabroni, that is an awesome word