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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
You, I will come back and respond to since you are not name calling and actually want to exchange opinions.
I think we all know that once a webhost has been notified of questionable behavior, the webhost 99% of the time is going to take action. GFY is quick to notify them of content thief's, and it is expected that the site will be removed in short order even though the webhost has nothing to do with the site itself.
In your example above, as you said, there is nothing illegal going on. I would not expect a webhost to remove content in a scenario you have described. I would be VERY upset if they did.
Let me use this example though...
Sly, lets say you run the largest surfer forum in the world (that is supposed to be family friendly) and some of your surfers hotlink a flash video from me to go in their posts. I know the hotlinking is taking place, but I don't implement .htaccess or even contact you to put a stop to what your members are doing. Instead, I modify the file to pop an XXX ad on your family friendly forum.
You, of course being the largest forum in the world, don't want to take on the massive burden of relying on your software (and the extra needed hardware) to filter out all of the people attempting to do stuff like this (nor do you want to become a SPAM hotbed for porn sites), so you nip this in the bud and go to my webhost. Right?
Well there I am, left with a hosting bill because of what your surfers started. In the end, all I had to do was implement .htaccess or contact you instead of letting it blow up into something it shouldn't have after taking justice into my own hands. Right?
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This is the "Mr Correct" answer... I would have htaccessed it. (I actually htaccess all my shit anyways).
I see your point, but you aren't necessarry right on a legal (business) standpoint. Wich is what people are seeing in this thread...
He didn't do anythig illegal, so his host shouldn't have done anything either.
If they want to clean up myspace, there are ways to do it... Look in my post above how we keep our site clean. Their system is way flawed, and frankly it pretty much sucks. There is a way to control the freedom on your surfers while letting them do pretty much whatever the fuck they want (eg : gfy).
The simple request they did was wrong, as well as the action taken.
and like I said, you seem to love and cherish myspace ... they probably wouldn't do shit if you asked them to stop hotlinking the pics.