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Post by SSCBen » Sun May 30, 2004 3:38 pm

I've noticed a few sites use some of our images, or link directly to them. I try to tell the webmasters of such sites to remove the images, but eventually I'll have to do that to many many sites. I've decided to put a watermark on each image, the 88x31 banner in a corner.

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Another thing I've noticed is that a few sites also copy our articles. I don't know what to do about that other than change the disclaimer to cover copying stuff more (it includes stuff about copying articles, not images, and isn't very strict at all). Does anyone have any ideas to prevent article copying?

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Post by Hyper_9 » Sun May 30, 2004 3:50 pm

Without a thousand pieces of useless javascript, sorry, no. You COULD start a anti-leeching/imagedirectlinking thing....
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Post by SSCBen » Sun May 30, 2004 3:55 pm

I could turn on the thing in the CPanel that prevents hotlinking, but then I couldn't hot link myself. Maybe it could work only on certain sites? I'll check it out.

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Post by Hyper_9 » Sun May 30, 2004 4:08 pm

Originally posted by DoomSoaker@May 30 2004, 07:55 AM
I could turn on the thing in the CPanel that prevents hotlinking, but then I couldn't hot link myself. Maybe it could work only on certain sites? I'll check it out.
No, not tha, but like Tripod. Its round here somewhere, Ill find it.
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Post by RacerSoaker445 » Sun May 30, 2004 5:08 pm

I can do really nice watermarks, the are just clear with a black outline.
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Post by SSCBen » Sun May 30, 2004 6:08 pm

Well, you'd have to work with SSC's hundreds of images if you want to take on the job. ;) I can do it myself, I do the site's images and I was planning on reworking the site quite a bit anyway, so while I'm at that I could do the images. That does mean this change won't be in effect for a few months unless I do it earlier.

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Post by BlueSmudge » Sun May 30, 2004 8:32 pm

Yay, I'm back! :D :Hey, that's funny.: :D
You could just to a ctrl-C on the water mark and go through each image, copying it in, and lowering the opacity of the watermark. Doesn't seem like it would take more than half an hour. Of course I don't know how web editing works. I know very little about code.
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Post by RacerSoaker445 » Sun May 30, 2004 9:27 pm

Any graphical changes? I'd be more than willing to help.

EDIT: BTW Doom, where's the regular fourm?
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Post by BlueSmudge » Sun May 30, 2004 10:10 pm

It's in the regular spot. You should just see this down under the old forums buton.
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Post by SSCBen » Sun May 30, 2004 11:32 pm

You should always click on the first SSCentral when you see this:

Image SSCentral Image SSCentral Image SSC Feedback

That will make sure you don't just see that one section of the forums.

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Post by Jadefalcon09 » Mon May 31, 2004 5:50 pm

Doom, I only have that image on my team's website to link to SSC. If you want me to remove it, I will do it asap.

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Post by SSCBen » Mon May 31, 2004 6:17 pm

You mean our logo? That is fine, in fact I tell people to use that on the Links page. ;) I mean people using images from reviews and other articles. Some don't even take the time to save them to disk, they just link directly to them, helping them and taking up our bandwith.

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