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Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

mark — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:16:07 -0000

Yes, but one can easily read that file, go there, upload it to a different website and post the images tere.

According to the press release:

http://www.prweb.com/releas...

It says:

â€œMicrosoft is showing tens of thousands of extremely valuable celebrity images, along with Perfect 10 images, without authorization, which it obtains from hundreds if not thousands of pirate websites,â€

Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

Harbinger Entity — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:12:48 -0000

Heh. I bet a lot of people didn't get past that first sentence.

"...really?" *switches to MSN search to see if it works*

Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

victoria jones — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:36:14 -0000

Any half decent adult webmaster uses the mod rewrite options to stop what is technically leeches. Whether its MSN, google or korean and chinese BBS posting your content you are an idiot not to stop it. Unless of course you let them do it and then sue them :)

Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

Alee — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:51:37 -0000

I'm not too upset about the porn industry losing money ;)

Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

Tim McCormack — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:27:11 -0000

There has got to be a software solution to block unauthorized access to content.

Can't they just post their content under https security settings? There are definitely tools to eliminate people hotlinking to your images.

If they expect Microsoft to hunt for their stolen images though, that others have downloaded, saved, and republished, that is a bit ridiculous.

That could be a nice paid service they could offer though to make some money.

Tim McCormack
http://www.iRent2u.com - The Online Rental Marketplace

Re: Microsoft Sued by Porn Company

Ali — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:12:01 -0000

Doesn't robots.txt take care of stuff like that?