an article about HotFreeLayouts.com stealing other peoples content their images get

[Connections]

lmao this is a massive article about how hotfreelayouts.com was stealing a bunch of images off this guys site, so what did he do???? he replaced the images with Goatse LMAO.....

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html

what do you think about hotfreelayouts? they seem to be a pretty big site yet they dont seem to host any thing on their own hosting its all stolen images!!!!

[alexisthemovie]

lol i cant believe this made digg.

[Connections]

yeah it had liek 4700 diggs, hows hotfreelayouts even after they steal the images they then send a bunch of emails asking for images to be removed lmao...

[fryman]

Those sob's were hotlinking many of my images also, I had to email them and demand to stop doing it

[mcfox]

OMG! EEWWWW!

I read about this on Digg and even Wiki'd Goatse'd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx) to find out what that meant but didn't bother checking out the images.

To be honest, I figured it was a figurative type of goatse and not the actual image described on Wiki.

Eeeeeewww! If you click on one of those image links, it really is exactly as described. Barf*

[Scilynt]

lmao...how could anyone spend any real amount of time online and never been to goatse? I actually make sure to send any of my friends there whenever they make the jump online just to get it over with early for them. Then I slip in the others to test their skills heheh.

Wasn't hotfreelayouts one that was giving someone here crap for using layouts they had?

[fryman]

Exact same thing happened to me, mcfox. I had absolutely no idea what goatse
meant.

[mcfox]

I guess should've read the article more closely - it does warn you but I have this thing about white text on black background ...

[not2late]

Some person claiming to be a designer for hotfreelayouts asked me to remove their layout from my user-submitted section. I removed it, then browsed hotfreelayouts to see a few of my layouts and images. After tons of emails they have still never removed it.

Also MyspaceSupport dot Com seems to have a few of my layouts on their.

How does one go about editting their .htaccess so that all calls for images in a certain directory + subdirectory from a specific site (hotfree, myspacesupport) could show a specific image? I wouldnt go to the extreme but Id like to have it just have an image saying come visit my site.

[Sergio]

That's genius! HAHAx30312509.

[Connections]

Some person claiming to be a designer for hotfreelayouts asked me to remove their layout from my user-submitted section. I removed it, then browsed hotfreelayouts to see a few of my layouts and images. After tons of emails they have still never removed it.

Also MyspaceSupport dot Com seems to have a few of my layouts on their.

How does one go about editting their .htaccess so that all calls for images in a certain directory + subdirectory from a specific site (hotfree, myspacesupport) could show a specific image? I wouldnt go to the extreme but Id like to have it just have an image saying come visit my site.

umm just change the image on your ftp with a big *** VISIT www.mysite.com banner

[not2late]

umm just change the image on your ftp with a big *** VISIT www.mysite.com banner

But then everyone using my layout/image would get it, not just the hits/views from xxxxx.com calling my images.

Might not be possible to do, thought it might have something to do with the .htaccess. Oh well.

[Selena]

umm just change the image on your ftp with a big *** VISIT www.mysite.com banner

or you can change it to a banner that says VISIT MY SITE AND GET OFF THIS DUMBASS'S STEALING SITE.

yep should do the trick.

[Rhab]

Quite a disturbing image...I'll be sending that to my buddies at work LoL

[YabbaDoo]

I just looked at that goatse site LOL...Never seen it before...But it's like a man stretching his...erm, yeah haha!
It's kinda sick and I dont get how he done it, but doubt I'll loose sleep over it lol

[tab]

But then everyone using my layout/image would get it, not just the hits/views from xxxxx.com calling my images.

Might not be possible to do, thought it might have something to do with the .htaccess. Oh well.
You can just block certain sites from direct linking your images. :]

"Luckily" they direct linked the images so he could change them.
Generally speaking stealers have them uploaded elsewhere so nothing can be done. :/

[LALING]

DAMN! SO hotfreelayouts.com's layouts and images are all just stolen? damn. thats messed.

[omen]

I was under the impression hotfreelayouts is the users submitted profile layout. So someone would have submitted thier profile layout that looked real good, then the code is offered to other people. Im sure thats how it works over there?

[thplooy]

I found an article about selective hotlinking prevention through .htaccess. (http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/06/htaccess-prevent-hotlinking)

Theo

[NYCBORN]

hotfreelayouts is notorious for that. if you look at their site many of their layouts are from other sites.

[switch]

Just copy/paste the code in your .htaccess and you wont have to worry about people stealing your bandwidth.


RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mydomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mydomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mydomain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule .*\.(swf)$ http://www.mydomain.com/bad.jpg [R,NC]

[Ajay]

if you steal other people's layouts, you should have the decency to host it on your own server.. some people... they have really horrible layouts but they get massive traffic :/ that's unfair.

[Matt]

some people... they have really horrible layouts but they get massive traffic :/ that's unfair.

That annoys the hell out of me. lol

[shimmeringgraphix]

Eh, that's a lovely images.......

[thplooy]

This works for me
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (hotlinkingsite1|hotlinkingsite2)
RewriteRule .* - [F]

[thplooy]

Better version:

.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?hotlinkingdomain1\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?hotlinkingdomain2\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?hotlinkingdomain3\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|swf|wmv)$ - [F]

[misterproline]

Goatse PWNS j00! http://typographi.com/art/articles/goatse-font.jpg

I would lmao if somebody made a comment or a glitter out of goatse or the image I posted here.

[ituhitam]

they are big but they steal bu submitting the user URL and replace the code in about me section to their logo.