10Apr / 2003

Give me a break

You tech-savvy people out there — how can this sort of thing be blocked?

[Read more about it at Krisalis]

Posted in Metamorphosism

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21 responses to “Give me a break”

  1. Kristen

    i’ve added the domain to my ‘deny’ list in my .htaccess file, but i don’t know that it’s working, since the site is still showing my stuff, and not returning a 403 error. if anyone knows of a sure fire solution, i’d be very interested to hear it, and i’m sure many other bloggers would be too.

  2. mig

    Is there any way to post something that would break their site?

    Also, I wonder what the copyright infringement laws are in Japan.

  3. Eeksy-Peeksy

    I’ve never seen this before. What do they gain from showing a copy of your blog? What do you lose?

  4. mig

    the site advertises porn, which i strongly oppose as you may know. it mirrors sites to attract hits from google searches.

    not to mention the unauthorized use pisses me off.

    according to the mefi discussion, it might be something harmless that simply converts websites so that they can be read on cellphones.

    i’d demand a cut of the advertising revenue, except i can’t imagine that many japanese cellphone users are viewing metamorphosism.

    here’s a little more information:

    http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=603

    http://erob.gozmoz.net/entry.php?a=20030331001&category=weblog

    http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004357.html

    http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/2973

  5. mary

    Nothing is sacred any more. There’s got to be some kind of code that will break it.

  6. michele

    I’m still confused by that opposing porn statement.

  7. melly

    As am I.

  8. Eeksy-Peeksy

    Maybe he means he’s against the _advertisement_ of porn, not against porn itself.

  9. @feckless

    see if cPanel can block it perhaps? pretty sure you can at least stop the pictures from displaying.

  10. mig

    nope, because the images seem to be on their server.

  11. mig

    and, sorry i was unclear, i’m against that site advertising pr0n without giving me my share.

  12. michele

    Giving you your share of pr0n or your share of the revenues?

  13. melly

    ahahaha! I love you, michele!

  14. mae who is moving to a new domain

    The only way to prevent them is by blocking their IP access to your domain’s virtual server. You can’t just block the domain pack.soksok.jp because it’s being redirected to w59st.5th.jp.

    C:\>ping pack.soksok.jp

    Pinging http://www.soksok.jp [210.224.177.59] with 32 bytes of data:

    C:\>ping -a 210.224.177.59

    Pinging w59st.5th.jp [210.224.177.59] with 32 bytes of d

  15. mig

    Thanks, Mae.

  16. mae

    Your welcome, Mig.

  17. mae

    You’re. DOH!

  18. mig

    I’m DOH?

  19. Shelagh

    Is this still doing the rounds? See an excellent explanation here http://www.daniasdailies.com/archives/2003_03.html#000502

  20. Daynah

    I wrote a small tutorial on it.
    http://daynah.php-princess.net/index.php?p=98&c=1
    I just blocked the sites’s ips. =( I’ve been trying to find out how they do this.. for days now. :(

  21. Diana Trees

    It’s a music site. Really.
    Anyway. To block unwanted folks from stealing (leeching) images from my site, I added this to my .htaccess file.

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?white-man-killer.com/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|mp3|rm|wmv|ram|css)$ – [F]

    Found it on the Net, though I’ve forgotten where.

    This will block *all* folks from hot-linking to your images. They’ll get a 403 forbidden, and your bandwidth will be safe.

    Now … what I was looking for when I found you was a way to block all access from Japan. Any ideas about IP block numbers?