RE: [CH] FW: eBay fun...
Riley J. McIntire (Riley@ChileGarden.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:01:50 -0700
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[Matt said: ]
> I still don't get it (the link works, I just don't get it).
>>>> From: Hugh
>>>> I sold a couple of routers on eBay a few months ago. I had a nice
>>>> description and everything....took me hours to get it just
>>>> right....
>>>>
>>>> ...fast forward to today....
>>>>
>>>> I noticed in my web logs that someone had been hitting my site a
>>>> whole bunch...i looked and some dweeb is linking to pictures i
>>>> have on my server....
Matt,
The responses I've seen don't seem to address your confusion--Hugh sold
some routers and spent a significant effort in creating images etc to
sell same. These images reside on Hugh's server. Someone visiting ebay
was actually viewing images on Hugh's server. After Hugh's offerings
lapsed the images he spent so much time on were still publicly available
on his server.
So this cretin with similar router(s) used (stole) Hugh's images on
Hugh's server to sell the cretin's router. Hugh noticed the hits on the
images and changed the images from routing equipment to some bodybuilder
type stuff, iirc. The dweeb should have just copied the images rather
than linking to Hugh's server, demonstrating he's a thief _and_ a
cretin.
hth,
Riley