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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 3 Jun 1999 02:07:13 GMT
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I need to have something clarified: Is it ok to tell people to go to
www.lugnet.com and do a search for a set (not a direct link)? I don't sell too
many completed sets on eBay, but I would like to know for future
reference...like when I find a sealed 6067 at a garage sale, put it up on
eBay,and then use the money to start the boys on trains. (ok, I'm dreaming).
I often tell my eBay bidders about lugnet, I see one of the people I informed
has done quite a bit of bidding on "X".
Julie
Todd Lehman wrote:
> I just happened across a couple unauthorized links from eBay auctions
> directly to images of sets hosted on the lugnet.com server. What people are
> doing is linking from various places (mostly eBay auctions) directly to the
> JPEG images. This is a big "no-no": it's against general web netiquette
> and it's also something I have always for years advised people against,
> whenever they have asked, or been caught.
>
> In addition to the fact that URLs of the other peoples' images are always
> subject to change at any time without notice, it's really unethical to link
> directly to other peoples' images without their permission, since they are
> stuck with the bill for the bandwidth, yet they receive nothing in return.
>
> Instead of embedding images hosted on other peoples' servers, people should
> link to the other peoples' web pages -- or make a local copy of the image
> they want (presumably with permission from the copyright owner) and host it
> on their own homepage (on geocities or the auction site or wherever). Note:
> I don't own the copyright on the LEGO images, so don't ask me for permission
> to copy it; use your own judgment as governed by TLG's "Fair Play" policy.
>
> In the past, I knew that this sort of funny-business was happening from time
> to time, but I never really paid it much concern because it wasn't really
> eating much bandwidth. However, times have changed: I just ran a script to
> check where things stand today, and here are the results:
>
> Over the past 2 weeks, 761 megabytes of JPEG image transfers occurred to
> off-site pages embedding the images without permission. This is still a
> long way from representing a "break-the-bank" level of link-piracy, but
> nevertheless it's beginning to get out-of-hand.
>
> The robust, long-term solution is to serve the JPEG images selectively to
> on-site pages and reject them to off-site pages, using an Apache webserver
> module called "mod_rewrite" and looking at the HTTP referrer field on-the-
> fly; or invoking a CGI script whenever an image is requested, and optionally
> doing more advanced filtering.
>
> The less-robust, short-term solution is simply to rename the image
> directories, thus breaking all of the bad links. This would certainly stop
> the problem, but doing that is like mowing over a weed rather than digging
> it up by the roots -- the problem will come right back to full intensity in
> a couple weeks.
>
> Probably both will happen -- first the short-term solution and later the
> long-term solution. I'm not going to personally write everyone who's doing
> unauthorized linking (I don't think they deserve any warning, anyway); this
> message serves as the only "notice" to freeloaders...
>
> --Todd
>
> [followups set to lugnet.admin.general]
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