[OT] Copyright infringement, sometimes a good way to do guerilla marketing :o)

[J. Landman Gay]

Malte Brill wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> this an absolutely off topic post...
> 
> I was reading my serverlogs yesterday night an have been a little 
> puzzled of why a relevant amount of Traffic comes from youTube. Until 
> now I was using youTube only passively. Looking at the detailed log 
> revealed that some kid in the US has 'borrowed' the logo of one of my 
> games to display as his background image. Not he did only use it without 
> asking, but he also linked it directly from my server. 

My Control Panel at my web site's ISP (jaguarpc.com) has a utility to 
prevent this kind of linking. I'm not exactly sure how it works but I 
think it writes to the .htaccess file at the root level of my domain 
account.

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