Somebody ripped off my website!

This is funnyl! I recently updated the layout on a site I maintain: themebot.com. There is usually a good amount of traffic on the site daily. I was checking my Google analytics and saw a noticeable amount of traffic coming from a site I didn't recognize. The referring URL is: freeipodsforstudents.co.nr. Decided to check it out. Hmm, something looks familiar

It is interesting that the site redirects to this other URL: boskone.lboro.ac.uk/~masc5/

Do you want a free iPod? Are you ready to sell your soul? Are you ready to get ripped off? It never ceases to amaze me how many ways people find to rip other people off on the internet. These idiots are ripping people off with the lure of a free iPod while ripping my site off. They used HTTrack Website Copier to scrape the content from my site. All of the images for the layout as well as the favicon and CSS are being leeched directly from my server. Even the Google tracking code!

Anyways, before I turn on the hotlink protection, just thought I'd post about this, since it is kind of amusing. I'll let it ride for a little while and take it as a compliment that my new layout was good enough to leech off of

wow I didn't even know that was possible. how do you protect yourself from it?

I wrote a quick tutorial to prevent site leeching with .htaccess

Just do what I have always done, change your hot linked images to HIGH RESOLUTION GAY PORNOGRAPHY and then report them to their web host.

LOL. That's a great idea! I want them to put some work into the site first and build some traffic

Hahaha That Idea made me laugh. But it's great

LOL twisted!

hehe I went to a site once which the original owner of the hotlinked images changed them to really funny images with captions saying what a doofus the website owner was

Lol... and combine the two...

LOL.

.htacess would be the way to do it. But the hotlinked images is pretty funny.

I think the site needs a new banner across the top:

FREE BUTT MASSAGES

Hahahahahaha! That'll be hilarious ... tell us when it's been changed so we can go check it out ...

LOL!

hahah yeah please do let us know, That would be great to see

Uh oh! They have a new banner.

Check it out: freeipodsforstudents.co.nr

I wonder how long it will take before they notice that something has gone terribly wrong?