Very interesting. If the lawyers say its ok, I would love to hear what comes of this. Should be some handy knowledge to have on hand for not only myself but clients as well.
To bad its a professional site. You could really have some fun with them by changing the content ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:14 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Stupid Weasel Thief Idiots and website theft I'm sorry, was I ranting? ;^) Just venting in friendly company really... Some weasel just set up a similair URL to one of ours with a framed ad. If you go to www.firstnight.org you see the real site. If you go to www.firstnightboston.com you see the weasel's site. We may not have ever noticed except that PayPal (our sales partner) bombs on the stolen site (due to invalid referer) and people have been calling the office. (Oh, and before you say it, I know that I can put in FrameBuster code to minimize the effect but have (against my recommendation) been asked not to "so that the lawyer can see" what he needs. I'm all ready to do so when I get the green-light. The odd thing is this isn't the first time this has happened to me. One of my old personal sites, vboston.com was stolen wholesale (copied to another server) and had ads attached. I actually got some publicity out of it: http://hotwired.lycos.com/netizen/97/18/index2a.html http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_864.html These are from five years ago... I'm actually (pleasantly) surprised that the links are still active. So, consider this a warning! Beware of weasels! Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
