Website and Blog Thieves

April 28, 2006

• HOT LINKING: This is a technique used by thieves and/or just plain lazy people. The culprit literally links to a picture or object in a victims website to display on their own. The picture or object may or may not have a copyright or be very important. At a minimum, it robs the victim of server resources (even though it may be small). On the other hand, if the culprits website is getting thousands of hits a day, it could be very significant. It is like syphoning gas from someone fuel tank, aka: stealing.(Note: there are a number of hilarious things that can be done when they are discovered.)
• CONTENT COPYING: This is done by scumbags that somehow can't create their own copy. I don't mind others using my content but they need to request permission and attribute the content to the owner.
• EMAIL HARVESTING: Malicious robots scan web pages for email addresses to build email marketing lists. I get several a day. Why do these people think it is a smart way to do business?
• BLOG SPAMMING: The art of automatically distributing junk content into blog comments or trackbacks links. I had to disable trackbacks several months ago because it was becoming unmanageable. Our comments are moderated (means I approve or not before they appear if the identity is unknown) and soon will contain other security measures to keep web trash out. Again, not a smart way for these people to do business. See my previous article about Blog Spamming.

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Merv made the following comment on April 28, 2006 3:38 PM

Tonja,
There is a lot of free content on the web and I use it. As of today, try "right clicking" our blog pages.

Tonja made the following comment on April 28, 2006 3:31 PM

I used to work for a high profile corporate blog and the amount of spam was unbelievable. And instead of hotlinking to our photos, people would just right-click and take them. It's amazing how most people think the Internet is free game.

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