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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.
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That's their problem... he dosen't have to know about the policies and problem of the website hotlinking him...
He's only cutting his loss, that's it and that's all. It's their problem to regulate users on their network, if they are going to do stupid shit, and they allow it (they could only allow hotlinks from a free image server they would host, and a couple other accepted sites) .
You don't go arround and change people's website because your users can't comply to your rules or are doing something illegal with your network.
I'm part of a team that runs a similar site as myspace btw (and not too small, arround 700 000 page views daily right now). We monitor what our users do... we have a report form and somebody on it all the time. Any picture added to their profiles, is on our server. We do not allow any flash/javascript because of the possible exploits. We also approve the profiles 1 by 1 so there is no spam and we also limit the ammount of messages you send daily... lots of other features to help limiting this kind of action. Normally when something like that happens it don't stay up for more then 1 hour. If they grew too fast, and didn't think about that, it's not the problem of the guy getting hotlinked. He's cutting his losses.
I understand from your posts that you are a big fan of Myspace, and probably a heavy user too... and understand their problem to regulate their users action since you read about it a lot. But it's THEIR problem, not anybody elses.