EYEHEARTZOMBIES

So I get up the morning to check my email and RSS feeds before my trip to the doctor and I notice something funny in my logs.

Two links from a MySpace site directly to two of the MP3s I’ve posted on this site. Hmm, how odd. Surely someone didn’t hotlink an MP3 on me! How uncouth!

Go to the site and sure enough, there’s the hotlink (had to check the source to even find it, it wasn’t very good/clean code). Not just one hotlink, but two. Both as embed tags set to autoplay. Tsk tsk.

MySpace has in their Terms and Conditions that you can’t post copyrighted material. Well, well, well. Guess what these MP3s would be considered? So now he’s breaking the T&C of MySpace and stealing my bandwidth. This has to be stopped.

Now, I’m a nice guy. Really, I am. So I messaged him (thank god he posted that on his page. MySpace doesn’t give non-subscribers any information about its subscribers), telling him that he had until 5 P.M. my time to remove the embedded links from his site. After that time, I would be contacting MySpace with all the information I had about the matter.

Well, I’m going to be going out of town this evening and there’s a chance I won’t remember to check his site again at five. So I need to do something about it, don’t I? So, I did.

The files he was linking to don’t even exist any longer (files are removed after month, as is stated on the music page. Hotlinking is still hotlinking, though.

With the help of Ray, I reuploaded the missing files. Sort of. A quick conversion of an MP3 from Landover Baptist and a quick Google search gave me two fun little MP3s weighing in at 276kb total (one’s 00:00:03 and the other is 00:00:04 in length). Now, even if I don’t remember to report him, he has to deal with superChristians and Ahnold. Fun!

Update

Thanks to a suggestion from Jeff, the MP3s have been changed. I left the Landover Baptist one, but moved it to the second position. Jeff’s suggestion autoplays on pageload.

Update #2

Well, I finally got ahold of him on AIM where he refused to take them. He thought I was being rude apparently. Anyway, I reported him to MySpace, so we’ll see if they say/do anything. Either way, he has since taken down the embedded links. So, we win!