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What do you do when someone steals your content? I'm talking a direct cut and paste here, word for word. Personally it pisses me off. Some lazy ass hat, not willing to put in the time to write something themselves, rips off your stuff, posts it, and then pinches some bandwidth while they are at it to display some images.

Well, this happened to me today. Someone ripped off a post I did on the new Audi A4, word for word, and included the pictures I'd posted as well. I've never considered it a good idea to post images on my blog that are hosted elsewhere. Besides the issue of bandwidth theft, which is just not on in my opinion, there is also the issue of control. If I were to link direct to a file on another site, I'd have no real control of the file. The original owner could change it or replace it with something completely different.

This evening, I decided it high time to test my theory. So I decided to replace the original Audi A4 images the thief had embedded with something else.

Here's a screen dump of the thief's blog from five minutes ago (please note that no Audi A4 images are present).

Bandwidth thief

I'm sure there is a way to stop bandwidth theft by modifying the .htaccess file. I just need to do some research. So how do you deal with content and bandwidth theft?

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10 Responses to “Dealing with bandwidth theft”

  1. AvatarMeg
    1

    Oh that is priceless :D Well done.

  2. Avatarswollenpickles
    2
    Author Comment

    Thanks Meg, but I think I really need to learn more about .htaccess, to stop that sort of thing in the first place. I did some reading last night, so I might have a go at fixing it tonight.

  3. Avatarjamonation
    3

    Easy enough to block the offending ip, or redirect and request from said ip somewhere else:

    RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^12\.13\.23\.12$
    RewriteRule .* http://www.fbi.gov [R,L]

    Or you can add this to just block access altogether:

    Deny from 123.123.123.123

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    Turning up the heat on the bandwidth thief | Swollen Pickles

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  5. Avatarblankshooting
    5

    cybernerds are in tents!

  6. AvatarSnoskred
    6

    Classic work! ;) Well done, and I hope they notice it and perhaps apologize.

    I used to have a photo of a plane from Parafield airport on my site which was chopped up by another plane that ran away while the props were running. That photo was viewed over a million times and also some people chose to steal it. We ended up taking it down but I wish I’d thought of this.. :)

    Snoskred -
    http://www.snoskred.org/

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    Weekly Update 6th September | Dipping into the Blogpond

    [...] Swollen Pickles highlights what he did when someone copied a whole post (including images) from his website, and how he replaced the images with something - well, quite funny. You see, the images were still being hosted and served by swollen pickles. There are a couple of posts in the series. Revenge can be funny Dealing with bandwidth theft. [...]

  8. AvatarTraveller
    8

    Ha ha! That was an original way of dealing with the ‘theft’. :-)

  9. AvatarTraveller
    9

    That’s certainly an original way to deal with this ‘theft’. :-)

  10. AvatarBabyamore (Trish)
    10

    very funny - I don’t am still not sure if I have ever done this accidently - not copy posts but images ? but than again I usually link back to author
    how would I know ?
    I must check !

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