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I'd start serving hilarious, huge pictures of dicks and boobs on the dodgy asset links or injecting js that does silly (but not malicious) things to browsers.

nxzero 10y ago
Horrible idea, are you serious?
ideamaniac 10y ago
Or just inject some ads and actually make some money...
diggan 10y ago
Well, if you understood their motivation for this post, you wouldn't. > We’d love to work with you Al-Jazeera. But not like this. > So how about starting over and signing up for an account. > We will even keep that eggplant emoji in there for you. > We look forward to hearing from you.
- emerongi 10y ago
  That isn't directed at Al-Jazeera though. If they wanted Al-Jazeera to sign up, they would not have started with a DMCA. This is pure marketing. They go out of their way to explain what features their product has and why it is beneficial to sign up. If they get even just 2 new sign-ups with this article, it has already paid off. The "our service is great!" message is not there to remedy things with Al-Jazeera.
  - angry-hacker 10y ago
    This. It would have been perfect opportunity to pitch their product but decided to make a fiasco put of it. I'm surprised they didn't start serving dick pictures to Al Jazeera from their server to get even more attention and 'new customers' .
  - ptaipale 10y ago
    Well, it appears they didn't start with a DMCA.
tomphoolery 10y ago
haha! I remember when there were blogs who lifted entire Something Awful articles but forgot to change the image links, so SA replaced the files with a big image that just said "STOP STEALING OUR IMAGES!" If these guys were seriously angry at Al-Jazeera I'm sure they'd have done the same.
- icebraining 10y ago
  Just the words? That's weak. When someone used our large images in their signature on a popular forum (eating half our traffic cap), I found a quite disturbing public domain photo to use in its place. It stopped in just a couple of hours :) Still, doing so as a business would be just stupid, frankly. Simply cut them off (send an HTTP error) and send them an email.

nxzero 10y ago

Horrible idea, are you serious?

ideamaniac 10y ago

Or just inject some ads and actually make some money...

diggan 10y ago

Well, if you understood their motivation for this post, you wouldn't. > We’d love to work with you Al-Jazeera. But not like this. > So how about starting over and signing up for an account. > We will even keep that eggplant emoji in there for you. > We look forward to hearing from you.

emerongi 10y ago
That isn't directed at Al-Jazeera though. If they wanted Al-Jazeera to sign up, they would not have started with a DMCA. This is pure marketing. They go out of their way to explain what features their product has and why it is beneficial to sign up. If they get even just 2 new sign-ups with this article, it has already paid off. The "our service is great!" message is not there to remedy things with Al-Jazeera.
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  This. It would have been perfect opportunity to pitch their product but decided to make a fiasco put of it. I'm surprised they didn't start serving dick pictures to Al Jazeera from their server to get even more attention and 'new customers' .
- ptaipale 10y ago
  Well, it appears they didn't start with a DMCA.

tomphoolery 10y ago

haha! I remember when there were blogs who lifted entire Something Awful articles but forgot to change the image links, so SA replaced the files with a big image that just said "STOP STEALING OUR IMAGES!" If these guys were seriously angry at Al-Jazeera I'm sure they'd have done the same.

icebraining 10y ago
Just the words? That's weak. When someone used our large images in their signature on a popular forum (eating half our traffic cap), I found a quite disturbing public domain photo to use in its place. It stopped in just a couple of hours :) Still, doing so as a business would be just stupid, frankly. Simply cut them off (send an HTTP error) and send them an email.