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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
You know what, in principal you are 110% correct. If they are going to allow their users to hotlink materials, then they need to accept that shit may happen here and there. That's my own personal feeling, but the business side of me expresses the opinions I've already written.
Admit it... You changed that file for the one and only purpose of targeting ads to MySpace users. You could have used .htaccess, but instead you decided to get a little free advertising on MySpace.
MySpace has recently come under media scrutiny for the content of their profiles not being in the best interest of underage users.... So what do you do? You pop an XXX popup and think that MySpace isn't going to care.
Hello?
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What he did wasn't the "nice thing" to do. However, since the law does not require you to be nice, and since hotlinkers have no right to the hotlinked content, the host had no business changing his file, and most definitely had no right to prevent him from changing it.
Imagine the following situation:
-You find yourself being hotlinked by a huge site.
-You install hotlink protection. Now, hotlinked images show Goatse.
-The huge site mails your host, your host removes your hotlink protection.
-You install hotlink protection again. Now, hotlinked images say "buy books at mysite.com".
-You host removes your hotlink protection again, and for good measure shuts you out of your account.
If you think the host or the huge site are in the right here, you are out of your mind. And that's pretty much exactly what happened here.