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beemk 02-03-2006 12:45 AM

100 shitty webhosts

SmokeyTheBear 02-03-2006 12:45 AM

First off , myspace is now ACTIVELY selling porn. So they are a competing business as far as im concerned, so this is a pretty clear case of a competing business trying to muscle out its competition by harassing its clients.. myspace has deep pockets... myspace is hotlinking my files right now , so technically they are doing to me what they are accusing you of doing. I have sent several notices to myspace staff yet they do not act upon the complaints.. funny how they think they can specify how they choose to steal content..


Dear user, we are stealing pictures from your server, but the pictures arent good enough, please replace your pictures with better ones..


Fuck the more i think about this situation it pisses me off...

heres an even better example..

Your neighbour has a hidden cam setup to look into your bedroom and watch you.. he gets mad because you put up a lamp in the window to block the view, so he cotacts your landlord has him break into your apartment and remove the lamp that is blocking the neighbour from filming you and selling the video for profit..

HAHA perfect example..

Doctor Dre 02-03-2006 12:51 AM

Quote:

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?

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.

Libertine 02-03-2006 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
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?

And here your reasoning fails.

First of all, the burden of managing (hot)links to content falls upon the shoulders of the site doing the (hot)linking.

Secondly, a host should not modify the content of its clients without legally compelling reasons to do so.

Imagine a site that has a "picture of the month", an image with the same filename that changes every month. Some are pornographic, some are non-nude. If people start hotlinking the picture, should the host of the site they belong to prohibit the client from ever using pornographic content again?

BigBen 02-03-2006 01:05 AM

What was the original flash file?

budz 02-03-2006 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBen
What was the original flash file?

it was a bong flash file..

the old virtual bong hit made by snap a load

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punkworld
Whether hotlinking is legal or not is actually irrelevant to this case. What matters is that sites hotlinking you have no intrinsic rights to the content of files on your server, your file structure or your file naming. Unless, of course, you entered into an agreement with the hotlinkers. But that isn't the case here.

Yes, you are 100% correct. You hotlink without permission, who knows if the file will remain the same. This is generally the number one reason not to hotlink, ever.

I don't appreciate being called an idiot in this thread. I feel like I'm maybe not explaining my view clearly enough and there is a misunderstanding.

It's not that I think sites should be able to hotlink anything they want without permission, and then hold the file owner responsible if the file changes. That would be absolutely ridiculous.

I guess my point all along has been that when you are being hotlinked, you've got some viable options. Contacting the website about it's users or taking advantage of .htacces would be two really great starting points.

Modifying the file with potentially offensive material for the purpose of commercial gain at the other website is probably not the best route to take.


SORRY if I offended anyone in this thread. These are just my worthless little opinions to kill some time on GFY. One thing I think we can all agree on though is that now we know MySpace's stance on this issue, and that it's best to not put yourself in a position with them that the original poster did.

sandman! 02-03-2006 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Yes, you are 100% correct. You hotlink without permission, who knows if the file will remain the same. This is generally the number one reason not to hotlink, ever.

I don't appreciate being called an idiot in this thread. I feel like I'm maybe not explaining my view clearly enough and there is a misunderstanding.

It's not that I think sites should be able to hotlink anything they want without permission, and then hold the file owner responsible if the file changes. That would be absolutely ridiculous.

I guess my point all along has been that when you are being hotlinked, you've got some viable options. Contacting the website about it's users or taking advantage of .htacces would be two really great starting points.

Modifying the file with potentially offensive material for the purpose of commercial gain at the other website is probably not the best route to take.


SORRY if I offended anyone in this thread. These are just my worthless little opinions to kill some time on GFY. One thing I think we can all agree on though is that now we know MySpace's stance on this issue, and that it's best to not put yourself in a position with them that the original poster did.

i see you really dont get it so here i go

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beemk 02-03-2006 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
I don't appreciate being called an idiot in this thread. I feel like I'm maybe not explaining my view clearly enough and there is a misunderstanding.

no, you explained it just fine.

idiot.

budz 02-03-2006 01:53 AM

lol @ idiot remarks

that really has lightened my mood

btw,
I'd like to give a special thanks to Sandman! from http://www.adultsitebrokers.com/
for some gracious generosity and just being a helluva guy.

now back to your regularly scheduled alcohol servings.

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandman!
i see you really dont get it so here i go

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Quote:

Originally Posted by beemk
no, you explained it just fine.

idiot.

Ha ha ha

Lets get one thing straight.

Anyone who agrees with his method and emulates him is leaving themselves open to the same end result.

Anyone who agrees with me will never find themselves in his position.

Who's the idiot now?

sandman! 02-03-2006 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Ha ha ha

Lets get one thing straight.

Anyone who agrees with his method and emulates him is leaving themselves open to the same end result.

Anyone who agrees with me will never find themselves in his position.

Who's the idiot now?

what same end result ?

i am hosting his site as of now and as long as the content of his websites are follow the tos his site will never be disabled :)

aico 02-03-2006 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Ha ha ha

Lets get one thing straight.

Anyone who agrees with his method and emulates him is leaving themselves open to the same end result.

Anyone who agrees with me will never find themselves in his position.

Who's the idiot now?

You're still the idiot. Cuz I would love to be in his position of having an ad pop up all over myspace... the problem isn't him, o ye with a dim light on, the problem was his pussy fucking hosting company stopped it without his consent.

And, fucktard, I am sure he will put the shit back as soon as he gets another hosting company who has some balls.

sandman! 02-03-2006 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Ha ha ha

Lets get one thing straight.

Anyone who agrees with his method and emulates him is leaving themselves open to the same end result.

Anyone who agrees with me will never find themselves in his position.

Who's the idiot now?


go fuck yourself and your fucked up perception of reality no one is with your thinking no matter what way you try to spin it in the end your just an IDIOT

sandman! 02-03-2006 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico
You're still the idiot. Cuz I would love to be in his position of having an ad pop up all over myspace... the problem isn't him, o ye with a dim light on, the problem was his pussy fucking hosting company stopped it without his consent.

And, fucktard, I am sure he will put the shit back as soon as he gets another hosting company who has some balls.


hosting has been taken care of :)

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 02:06 AM

Heh.

Well I'm not going to even bother arguing with the spammer and shady business types. You guys are set in your ways.

Spam here, spam there. Figure out a way to get ads on MySpace.

Anyone who disagrees with the practice must be a total idiot!

Whatever...

I think I'll stick to legit business thank you.

aico 02-03-2006 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandman!
hosting has been taken care of :)

Sweeeeeet... you should sell ad space ;) on the downlow :thumbsup

Doctor Dre 02-03-2006 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Ha ha ha

Lets get one thing straight.

Anyone who agrees with his method and emulates him is leaving themselves open to the same end result.

Anyone who agrees with me will never find themselves in his position.

Who's the idiot now?

Same end result ? There isn't a single host who is profetional who will allow this.

Or if you're talking about myspace, and porn ending up on my website, well I'm smart enough not to let this happen.

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doctor Dre
Same end result ? There isn't a single host who is profetional who will allow this.

Wanna bet? Unless we are talking about hosts who deal with shady clients, they ALL would have bowed down to MySpace. Every single one of them.

They may come into this thread stating otherwise, but the bottom line is that when a company that was just sold for nearly $600 Million asks a small webhost to do something, they are going to do it.

Right or wrong, they are going to do it.

aico 02-03-2006 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Wanna bet? Unless we are talking about hosts who deal with shady clients, they ALL would have bowed down to MySpace. Every single one of them.

They may come into this thread stating otherwise, but the bottom line is that when a company that was just sold for nearly $600 Million asks a small webhost to do something, they are going to do it.

Right or wrong, they are going to do it.

It was at this very moment that i realized, you have to be fucking with us, cuz no one is really that stupid.

Ron Bennett 02-03-2006 02:26 AM

There is no need for Myspace to contact anyone ... all they need do is filter out links / embedded to known objectionable content in people's myspace profiles on the fly; I'll bet they already have this ability to some extent now.

Yes, dynamic filtering costs money, but then MySpace has plenty of that to burn LOL!

Ron

budz 02-03-2006 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Wanna bet? Unless we are talking about hosts who deal with shady clients, they ALL would have bowed down to MySpace. Every single one of them.

They may come into this thread stating otherwise, but the bottom line is that when a company that was just sold for nearly $600 Million asks a small webhost to do something, they are going to do it.

Right or wrong, they are going to do it.

wow, are you indirectly calling me ( the victim ) a shady client?

Damn.

http://press.comedycentral.com/image...ecial_Ed_1.jpg

let's hope comedycentral doesnt goatse that

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico
It was at this very moment that i realized, you have to be fucking with us, cuz no one is really that stupid.

I used to work for two fairly well known mainstream hosts. Both would pull shit off clients servers at the request of large companies even when the owners of the hosts didn't agree with their claims at all.

Once the webhost is notified of something, they are now involved. It's safer to become uninvolved again than to worry about what a virtual hosting client thinks of what you did.

Sucks for everyone involved, but that's life.

Babagirls 02-03-2006 02:55 AM

lol i told you to get rid of that host. shittiest fuckin host i've ever known & shady.

budz 02-03-2006 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babagirls
lol i told you to get rid of that host. shittiest fuckin host i've ever known & shady.

didn't think they would've done some crazy shit like that.

but yeah, they've definately had their downs..

phonesex 02-03-2006 03:03 AM

theres plent of good host that won't do that shit.

OneHungLo 02-03-2006 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by budz
The webhost is Webgemshosting.


Who the fuck is Webgemhosting???

Seriously...if you're some noob starting out go with a reliable host like swiftwill.com

budz 02-03-2006 04:04 AM

lol.. if you've never heard of them
I don't know what you're talking about


LOL

AdultInsider Cloner 02-03-2006 04:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbe
No, Tom does indeed control the internet.


LOL! Tom invented the internet.....therefore he has the right to control it!

AdultInsider Cloner 02-03-2006 04:09 AM

Hey budz, I'd try Naughty Bandwidth......I've only heard good things about them....tell tracy that Cloner sent ya and she'll hook ya up ;)

budz 02-03-2006 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdultInsider Cloner
Hey budz, I'd try Naughty Bandwidth......I've only heard good things about them....tell tracy that Cloner sent ya and she'll hook ya up ;)


Thx for the suggestion.. I'll look into it if what I'm on doesn't cut it.

Once again A big thanks to SANDMAN! from www.adultsitebrokers.com

for stepping up to host some shit that other people quiver in fear from. :warning

If you need some traffic or banners checkout www.adultsitetraffic.com

Zuss 02-03-2006 04:38 AM

Good to know that wenbgemshosting is shit...

budz 02-03-2006 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zuss
Good to know that wenbgemshosting is shit...


so that's the point I was making.. I was wondering..

budz 02-03-2006 05:38 AM

little things mean a lot - boyz II men

fuzzylogic 02-03-2006 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zuss
Good to know that wenbgemshosting is shit...

they are shit

not total shit, but pretty fucking bad.

they are very popular with newbies breaking into the tgp world on another forum.

furthermore, they datacenter (as of last summer) is located on the west florida coast. they go down often in the summer.

u-Bob 02-03-2006 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by budz
The webhost is Webgemshosting.

drop them ASAP.

fuzzylogic 02-03-2006 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
Fuck the more i think about this situation it pisses me off...

heres an even better example..

Your neighbour has a hidden cam setup to look into your bedroom and watch you.. he gets mad because you put up a lamp in the window to block the view, so he cotacts your landlord has him break into your apartment and remove the lamp that is blocking the neighbour from filming you and selling the video for profit..

HAHA perfect example..

not perfect.
in ur example the voyeur is commanding. in the real life issue of this thread the filmed person commands a different landlord to break into the filmers apt and remove the cam.

Pornwolf 02-03-2006 07:45 AM

That's some bullshit. Switch hosts asap. Fucking mainstream hosting companies are pussies. I can't stand them when it comes to certain things.

AmateurFlix 02-03-2006 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Wanna bet? Unless we are talking about hosts who deal with shady clients, they ALL would have bowed down to MySpace. Every single one of them.

I'm not going to call you an idiot but it's obvious that you really have no idea at all what you're talking about here.

chadglni 02-03-2006 10:18 AM

This idiot is still in here defending his retarded ass ideas? :1orglaugh

lelahosting 02-03-2006 10:24 AM

damn. they never should have disabled that whole directory

glad you are switching/switched hosts.

lelahosting 02-03-2006 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pornwolf
That's some bullshit. Switch hosts asap. Fucking mainstream hosting companies are pussies. I can't stand them when it comes to certain things.

thats the funny thing..he used an adult host

seeric 02-03-2006 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by milan
I will give you a free site hosting just to piss them off :thumbsup

Hit me up...


hahahaha you rock, i was just thinking the same thing.

Stallion 02-03-2006 10:41 AM

Drop those host like yesterday. That is fucked up.

budz 02-03-2006 12:59 PM

wow, webgems updated their AUP and restored access to my files.. hm

Brad Mitchell 02-03-2006 01:07 PM

That is GARBAGE that your host did that, most especially without discussing it with you first.

Brad

gregalicious 02-03-2006 01:10 PM

Hey Matt, nice trick of saying "I agree with you 100%" and then promptly not agreeing at all. You're also not listening. Sometimes people who hotlink your content are kind of doing you a favor, and if you have everything watermarked it might be to your benefit. But that's the content provider's decision.

Whether he got ancillary benefit, or some money for advertising to MySpace users, that's totally his right.

Matt's right about one thing, MOST, MOST hosts would have buckled. I had it happen to me. Big host. The second a big corporation sends them a letter, trust me, a lawyer's written it and it probably has 'copyright infringement' or 'cease and desist' your host is going to shut it down. It's not fair, but it's true.

The fact it's porn and it wasn't really making you any money means that suing MySpace for trying to frustrate your business probably won't amount to much, but if you do, you're certainly in the right.

Do your best to fuck up the hosting company though :D

pocketkangaroo 02-03-2006 01:22 PM

Surprised there is no response from WebGems on the board. I know they aren't large, but they do frequent the adult boards. They are pretty prominent at some others.

They have taken a lot of shit over the past year or so I know. They have had times where everything went down for hours and had some pretty lame excuses for it. However, their customer service has always been real helpful and fast and I've had minimal problems at most with them.

SmokeyTheBear 02-03-2006 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregalicious
Matt's right about one thing, MOST, MOST hosts would have buckled. I had it happen to me. Big host. The second a big corporation sends them a letter, trust me, a lawyer's written it and it probably has 'copyright infringement' or 'cease and desist' your host is going to shut it down. It's not fair, but it's true.

Umm i sure hope not.. I can see if it was a question about ownership , but it isnt. Its a pretty clear case of someone who STOLE something ( myspace ) then used it without permission , then asked the person he stole it from to replace the stolen goods with BETTER stolen goods.. Its ludicrous , it should be criminal. Imagine going to your local store , stealing something , then going back int he store and demanding more stolen goods because the first thing you stole wasn't good enough

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregalicious
The fact it's porn and it wasn't really making you any money means that suing MySpace for trying to frustrate your business probably won't amount to much, but if you do, you're certainly in the right.

Myspace is actively selling porn, they are nothing more than a porn site as far as im concerned now. basically myspace is just a new version of AFF, nothing more.. if AFF stole your shit then contacted your host and had them delete your files you would flip..

Any lawyer worth their weight would be creaming his pants about now..

Matt 26z 02-03-2006 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregalicious
Do your best to fuck up the hosting company though :D

From the sounds of it, this is a host that likes to keep on the down low and deal with clients who are angels. The percentage of hosts who like to keep the peace is actually quite high. They just don't have the resources (or the balls) to stand up and take one for the client.

It's simple risk vs. reward.

The risk of telling MySpace to fuck off isn't worth impressing a virtual hosting client. This is a fact at the average webhost.

Having your own box would buy you more time at most hosts. How much time depends on the host.


Quote:

Originally Posted by gregalicious
Hey Matt, nice trick of saying "I agree with you 100%" and then promptly not agreeing at all.

No, no, no. What I was agreeing 100% with was the right of a file owner to change the file in general without permission from those hotlinking. Your file, your right to change it.

There are VERY FEW instances where I wouldn't take the side of the person being hotlinked, but I just can't give this guy any sympathy in this particular case considering everything as a whole. This goes beyond simple hotlinking and the normal recourse of action.


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