By Andy McCue
Published: Thursday 11 March 2004
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Name
Wayne Barsanti
Location
UK
Occupation
IT Consultant
Comment
I once supported a company called displayIT that sold software to deliver online viewing of stock exchanges' share trading information services. Their trick was to capture the urls and forward them as links through their software, paying no fee to the originators. This was soon a problem for the exchanges and originating providers as their services were being overloaded by the access from the DisplayIT service. To overcome the problem they set up virtual urls that were changed at irregular intervals. Very quickly DisplayIT lost sight of the host and the service failed. This is not so easy to do for a small company but can easily be accomplished if your web site is hosted by a larger provider such as an ISP.
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