Far East Hotlinking Scumbags

[southernexposure]

Will those guys ever be stopped?
I am not personally being targeted yet, but I assume every webmaster has. Fortunately for me, I got rid of my hosting a year ago with a huge bandwidth bill that finally got paid. Now I have new hosting and watching my administration like a hawk, cause of movie files that can't be protected.

anyway: the point of this thread is to post urls to those scum sucking hotlinkers to warn other newbee webmasters about the dirty little deeds these guys manage to get away with.. (WATCH YOUR REFERRING URLS IN ADMINISTRATION!!!) IMO they should be sent to jail. LOFL

Please list any urls that have been known to post site content in forum, www boards, chat rooms, etc.

[BDBionic]

Topfong
club1069

Personally... hotlinking from the far east will never go away. Why? Cultural mentality.

Now before someone thinks "eep! racism!" let me explain.

CHINESE AREN'T HUMAN!

no no just kidding.

When I say "cultural mentality" I mean that what we have in the far east right now is a newborn involvement with the global marketplace. There's no foundation of experience in that part of the world with participation in the global marketplace, capitalism, free trade, copyright, matters of int'l business, etc. We have an entire culture that's only now awakening to aspects of the global marketplace such as the internet and so has yet to grasp any of the "rules of conduct" so to speak.
I saw it when I worked in the telecommunications industry, as well. Beyond just piracy or copyright infringement or the flat out rip off of product designs and such... Chinese companies I dealt with would submit bids or Requests for Quotes or inquiries and never follow through with them. There never even was an intention to buy or sell or conduct business. They knew the mechanics of the process but not the meaning behind any of it. It was incredibly frustrating. There is no written rule that when requesting a quote you follow through or when submitting a bid you commit yourself to some followup action. But it's most certainly implied and expected among legitimate businesses. They just didn't understand that. They were only beginning to introduce themselves to international business and so had yet to comprehend what that entailed or required.
We finally stopped doing business with all companies out of the Chinese mainland. It just wasn't worth it.
It may seem odd to go off on all of the above when discussing something like hotlinking, but that's what I truly believe it comes down to. There's no point in the mental process of the Chinese hotlinker where they say "I wonder if this is negatively affecting the person who hosts this image?" because appreciation for that factor doesn't exist. Consideration of the 3rd party is totally absent. That entire dimension - the world beyond themselves and the people they're sharing that image with - is completely nonexistent.
It's not that they're sitting around thinking "Fuck all those webmasters! I wanna share free porn so I'm gonna do it!". It's that they don't even think about the other webmasters at all! It's not maliciousness or spite. It's just being completely unaware and unconscious to it all.

There was a campaign a couple of years ago among some Chinese webmasters to educate their surfers about the ills of hotlinking. Because it goes way beyond just porn. Gaming communities, artist communities, blog communities, and on and on all have the same complaints - Chinese hotlinkers are outta control. These Chinese webmasters tried to appeal to their surfers sense of honor and national pride by saying "Our rampant hotlinking is tarnishing our honor!" because they'd come to realize just how much frustration Chinese hotlinkers were causing out there.
But it's still got a long way to go.

As with product piracy - CDs and movies and software and hardware and clothing - hotlinking is just a part of the process in bringing a population and societal and legal infrastructure unfamiliar with the global marketplace in to that global marketplace.
We've seen it with former Eastern Bloc countries, too. Though not quite as much with hotlinking because in the early 90s, when communism came down and those countries entered the marketplace, the internet wasn't really around to it's present extent. Had it been, we'd have all experienced it back then with them.
It'll dissipate in 10-15 years.

[BDBionic]

boy am i ever one long winded bastard.

[Lee]

Originally posted by BDBionic
boy am i ever one long winded bastard.

:ahso: :ahso: :ahso:

Regards,

Lee

[hyatla]

You might feel better considering it as a payback for the invasion and rubbing of Chinese treasures conducted by your European ancestors.

When Chinese invented compass and sending their ships doing business all around the globe, Europeans are still in the middle age.

What I mean is this is just a period in history and it will pass...