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kingeric

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Dear User http://www.dnforum.com/member-visualdigits.html

Greetings... I'm back in the states now!

Since July of 2006 until June of 2007 your sites located at the below:
http://www.slack-time.com
http://www.muvids.com
http://videodrift.com/

Have hot linked all their video content from my site located at corbilla.com. You have scraped the content file from my server over 14,576,077 times from July 2006 thru June 2007. This has caused my site servers a lot of downtime and money. Today you continue to still bandwidth from my servers located at corbilla.com.

You have many files still linking to my server and stealing bandwidth and resources.
http://www.corbilla.com/scumbag.jpg
http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-4083-Kreesha-Turner-Dont-Call-Me-Baby
http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-4594-
http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-7844-Keke-Wyatt-Who-Knew recently added.


Also stop following all my webmaster accounts. I have 5 accounts with other sites and you have been following all my projects to steal ideas. Thats Freaky!! Example below:
http://corbilla.com/scumbag2.gif

Additionally stop posting my personal info in the forums (U Know what im talking about).
I can post your entire history on the forums but I do not... and you know it!


You have accused me of stealing from you….hahaha I don’t know what kind of Mental Illness you are suffering from but let me explan something to you. I CANNOT STEAL FROM YOUR SITE BECAUSE ALL YOUR CONTENT IS STOLEN FROM OTHERS!! YOU ARE STEALING BANDWITH AND SERVER RESOURCES FROM ME!!!

If I see a new video on your site from Youtube.com and I go to Youtube.com and post the same video….THATS NOT STEALING FROM YOU! That is stealing from youtube! But YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME!!! And have been doing so for over 4 years!

We are both taking from youtube....BUT YOU ARE USING My SERVER RESOURCES TO DO SO!! get your own curl files!! stop stealing my server resources!

You are welcome for the 800K you have made over the last 4 years of scraping my curl files.

My attorneys will be contacting you this year at your Brooklyn NY address unless you prefer we send the notice to your company address in NJ.

You are right.... "Karma is a !@#$"."
 
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Nvm, tired, I get it... thats horrid, good luck
 

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has he made money from this?
 

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Yes I have documented proof.

I hope you place this scumbag in his place. All the best and luck to you. Please keep us updated on this issue and please post his contact info so google indexes this fraudster.
 

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I am not sure if hotlinking is illegal (my guess it is not), but I have always pleasure people hotlinking from me - I am returning them instead of the original file some of the nastiest stuff I can find.
 

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If you've noticed this happening over a period of 4 years, why didn't you just block the requests from his IP/referring website? :confused:

I hope everything turns out alright for you though.
 

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I am not sure if hotlinking is illegal (my guess it is not), but I have always pleasure people hotlinking from me - I am returning them instead of the original file some of the nastiest stuff I can find.

Excellent!

Curious, how are you detecting it?
 

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If you've noticed this happening over a period of 4 years, why didn't you just block the requests from his IP/referring website? :confused:

I hope everything turns out alright for you though.

Oh I blocked him several times. He keeps trying to circumvent my blocking.... you can see I currently blocked his sites but I'm getting tired of this scumbag.
 

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Why don't you just disable hotlinking completely if it disturbs you?
 

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Disabling hotlinking can mess up things for people who are browsing..

But usually you can block a specific domain/ip easily.
 

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Oh I blocked him several times. He keeps trying to circumvent my blocking.... you can see I currently blocked his sites but I'm getting tired of this scumbag.

Why do you manually block him? Set up a script that tracks more than 10 hotlinks within 1 minute and block the new IP address automatically. Problem solved for now.
 

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Why don't you just disable hotlinking completely if it disturbs you?

That is not good for the server users....and theres no such thing as disabling hotlinking completely...You can always find away around it especially if you are trying to hotlink to files.

---------- Post added at 07:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:04 PM ----------

I am not sure if hotlinking is illegal (my guess it is not), but I have always pleasure people hotlinking from me - I am returning them instead of the original file some of the nastiest stuff I can find.

Most hotlinking is not illegal but can be compensable in civil court. In conclusion, the law states: Log files are considered legal evidence and you can be sued for stealing bandwidth (or copyrighted property for that matter). Damages are awarded up to $100,000 plus proven costs. Proof of monetary loss isn't necessary for damages to be awarded.
 

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whats is the cost damage so far for you? can you disclose that hear? or PM me.
 

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whats is the cost damage so far for you? can you disclose that hear? or PM me.

From original post:

kingeric said:
You are welcome for the 800K you have made over the last 4 years of scraping my curl files.

So the loss is about $550 a day as this continues to happen according to the original post.
 

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In such a situation you would normally file a formal complaint with their webhost and registrar.
 

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Just out of curiosity. Have you contacted him directly?
 
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