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Subject: Re: FLASH: Re: Copyright question
From: Franke James
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:47:25 +0100

Ray,

I'm sure someone will answer with a much more sophisticated response but I
tracked down a site that was hijacking a Campfire logo we'd designed for a
client. (I noticed a spike that did not correspond with the page hits).

To track it, I simply entered the .gif name into a search tool (like Lycos)
and found it. The biggest surprise was that it was a church who was using it
for a camp they were running! (This was in 1997)

I sent a very polite letter explaining that we were the holder of the
copyright. The Minister replied with new understanding, and it was taken off
their site.


Franke
Jamesgang.com
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>From: "Ray Broussard" <virtshipataccesscom [dot] net>
>To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>Subject: FLASH: Re: Copyright question
>Date: Wed, Jul 5, 2000, 6:16 PM
>

>>hey hey, i am new here, and i think i will jump right in. Michael what you
>>are talking about is called "bandwidth steeling" and is generally frowned
>>on, many sites have a cap on how many MB's of traffic they can get for a
>>month, and in essence you are taking a little of that away everytime someone
>>loads that page... i think i would strongly suggest that you follow jb's
>>advise and email the site, to make sure they don't mind.
>
> Is there a way to detect where some other site is stealing your content and
> bandwidth? I have this silly poorly done QTVR crawfish object movie on my site
> and its .mov file gets a *lot* more hits than the corresponding html page -
> which makes me think someone is hijacking it. I've used the various search
> engines looking for links to my site, but have never found the culprit.
>
> BTW, When I find the hijacker, I plan to send them a bill and sick my lawyer
on
> them.
>
> Ray Broussard
> http://PhotographicVR.com
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