Tips on how to stop sites to RIP your stuff.

[JediMind]

I need help, i have 2 games/programs, that gladly enough are very popular, i get aprox 50000 hits per day for them, but along with that
i also get a flood of sites that run my games in a frame on there site. and this is not good at all for me.
First question is: Is this even legal, and it dosent matter anyways,
because its no idea to try to sue, or whatever. not gonna happend.
Second Question: How can i prevent this the best way ?
Right now, i just have a text on the indexsite of the game, saying that "If your not on www.mingem.nu blah blah, you should go there.."
and whatever, its the best i could think of.

Any ideas ? MindGem

[gSOLO_01]

Flash Games?

HTML:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
	if (window != top) {
		top.location.href = location.href;
	}
//-->
</script>

Flash:

if (_flash._url != "http://www.mingem.nu/graffiti.swf") {
	_flash.unloadMovie();
}

[JediMind]

Great stuff, never new that existed.

Thanx gSolO

[Musicman]

Hi,

just wnted to remind you that someone could just do
<embed src="http://www.mingem.nu/graffiti.swf" ...>
This way the flsh test would allow the movie AND you would even pay for the bandwidth

Musicman

[JediMind]

Cus thats the biggest threat to me, the bandwidth
from that site, the worst of them, i get i dunno, 20-30 thousand hits
and thats alot of bandwidth, for my program that is 200-300kb

I tested with this,

if (_flash._url != "http://www.mingem.nu/graffiti.swf") {
_flash.unloadMovie();
getURL(http://www.mindgem.nu/graffiti.html);
}

cus i wanted to reload to my site. but this cause it to open about
20 new windows, before it stopped, or i stopped it.
Arrg..


oh well...
MindGem

[JediMind]

Any ideas how to prevent the embedding to work.

[Musicman]

Hi,

there was a good one posted in scripting & backend a few weeks ago: essentially the movie makes a call to javascript to retrieve the location (of the html page)
This may not work with every browser
Have the movie interact with the server ... and generate a bit of extra traffic this way

Musicman