
By Will Sturgeon
Published: Tuesday 09 March 2004
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Name
Anonymous
Location
London
Occupation
Information Manager
Comment
We were on the receiving end of an attempt to steal a copyright database from our web site last year. It showed up as a million data requests in one weekend. We tracked it back as far as his/her ISP, who were UK-based, and "persuaded" them to finish the job by threatening to bar access from all their customers to our site unless they identified and dealt with the offender. No trouble since, but what would we have done if it wasn't a UK ISP?
Probably using XML to grab the remote page. This ...
Anonymous
This happened to me!!!
I run a massive body pie...
Gary Stanton
This is absolute madness. How can the internet be ...
Anonymous
Give the IP of their web server to the authors of ...
John Beardon
We were on the receiving end of an attempt to stea...
Anonymous
I don't know much about IP laws at all but is this...
Anonymous
Nothing new here as some websites 'rip off' the ne...
Anonymous
The best way to deal with a site like this is to c...
Jeff
Weve just had for second time in a year, possibly ...
Steve Markham
This sort of thing is all too common... however, a...
Anonymous
As an information site owner, I am all too aware o...
Anonymous
This isn't especially rare, I know several people ...
Adrian Lee
To the person who asked if this is really illegal....
Anonymous
There's a simple fix. Particularly for sites in Ch...
Shecky Malmsteen
That is a real copy. Im surprised this article alo...
Danny Hatt
I had this happen to my site
...
Rob Kelley
XML to grap the content? Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Joe Job
Here's a question: can you copy an actual copyrigh...
Anonymous
Couldn't the advertisers be charged with a crime? ...
Anonymous
> There should be accountability for
> people wh...
Steve
One really good solution is to just make your site...
Anonymous
To the idiot who said using XML. You just proved y...
Anonymous
I had that happen to my site as well. Not only di...
Anthony
Perhaps there is a solution? Why not rig the web ...
Jeff Sprigg
I like how the membership form still has the url f...
Brian Greene
Interesting because the only difference is the mai...
Anonymous
I've had complete graphics stolen off my site and ...
Anonymous
Our school's webpages was also copied by another C...
tt
Am I the only one that realizes the banner traffic...
Anonymous
Compare www (dot) autraining (dot) com with the fr...
Anonymous
I made a web site for my brother in the middle 90'...
Andrew Bairnsfather
Prevention.
I use a bit of javascript to make sur...
Anonymous
XML to grab the content? Maybe they could use JPE...
dave
"Probably using XML to grab the remote page. This ...
adam
Javascript to prevent a site being ripped off?
...
Stephen C
I have had this happen to my websites too.
I thin...
Anonymous
"If piracy means using the creative property of ot...
Anonymous
One can easily lock content with Flash... and to b...
Paul
XML *might* be used to grab remoted content...or, ...
Anonymous
That is horrible. I've never had anyone jack my we...
Matthew Wright
People representing someone elses work as their ow...
Craig Morris
Very nice site!
Pharme
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