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i haven’t heard anything from christian hartman (the owner of tokerlounge dot com), but i heard from his host provider, which requests me to file a “formal DCMA notification” before they will do anything… typical bureaucracy… 8/ so i changed the graphic, and i got a link to the Comprehensive guide to .htaccess, which should give me some ideas about how i can deal with this without having to pay a lawyer to write me a “formal DCMA notification”.

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  1. if you have access to .htaccess on your server, you can do all kinds of interesting and nefarious things to people like this… i’ve currently got

    IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg *.png *.css *.hqx *.zip *.mp3

    which makes it so if you get a directory listing, all you get are .html files. i’m working with

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?hybridelephant.com/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ – [F]

    but that makes it so that i can’t hot link graphics from my own site, so i haven’t implemented it yet…

  3. Please tell me that you changed the graphic to “Christian Hartman Smokes the Pole,” or something of that stripe?

  4. erm, could you change the image to host something really, really offensive. cover your own tracks, then get a 3rd party to take a snapshot of the other site and make a formal complaint somehow? “this person is hosting beastiality images in the public arena?” etc?

    or a simple “the owner of this site is stealing other peoples copyright, do you really know this when you do business with him” until he notices 🙂

    far too many retail shops on the net doing this sort of thing. code for dissalowing linking of images is available but can be costly to implement. tracking back thru server stats and finding easily the guilty sites is good, but make them go underground and you’ll never know who is stealing who’s images.

  7. where? i googled for “formal DCMA notification” and got a ton of people who have had to remove content because someone filed a formal DCMA notification, but nowhere that had a form letter, or even a template to follow… 8P

  8. You don’t need a lawyer to write a DMCA notification, you can do it yourself. There are several sites online that provide outline, fill-in-the-blanks DMCA notifications and counter-notifications…

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