OT: It's WAR! EEVblog ripoff

Wow again, this gets even more impressive:

It looks like the site is doing a live mirror of my site, but automatically replacing all references to "eevblog" with "war video blog", even in the forum posts!

Dave.

Shame there's no legal way of punishing people like this.

Yeah, could be anywhere on the planet really. I've managed to block his IP address on my server, so the site is now down completely. But I guess I'll have to re-anable it for a while so I can actually prove to his host that he's scraping my site so I can get him shut down.

Dave.

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I wonder if similar previous events ever have inspired hackers to add optional "vengence" capability to Wordpress. Allow certain selected IPs to see an alternate version of your blog! (The all-g***se 2girls graphic channel? The gigabyte-GIF interest blog?)

I think there are legal ways, but the illegal methods are probably more satisfying. So this was done to boost ad revenue? The only real "ad" on the site seems to be Dontronics, and the URL seems legit. But perhaps he gets a nickle if someone clicks through his site? The links to Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon have warvideoblog in the URL, so maybe those clicks give him some fast cash?

Hey, I just returned to warvideoblog and the account has been suspended! I may have been the last one to view it (about 15 minutes ago) before it got TOS'd.

Paul

Yep, got him! "This Account Has Been Suspended"

That fight was just too easy, no fun at all!

Dave.

Time to blog about it and what you think about these people.

I was going to do that, but now it wouldn't hillariously show up on the fake site, so there is less fun in blogging about it now!

Dave.

David L. Jones Inscribed thus:

Hi Dave, Its got to be worth a blog, if only as a warning to others that might try the same trick.

Anyway keep up the good work. I find your blogs quite enjoyable and very entertaining. :-)

Likely was just a junior script kiddie.