Hi Guys,

It came to my attention yesterday that a chinese website at http://tutorial.jcwcn.com/ is copying and pasting tutorials from all over the web without authorization and without naming the source. The fiend behind the site is also holinkings all images connected to those tutorials anf if he is not hotlinking them he dares to put his watermark on it!!!!. This is a disgraceful attitude, I have tried to contact as many authors as possible but could not always find their contact details therefore don't hesitate to contact them if you know any of them. Also there is a nice article at http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html that describes how to prevent hotlinking.



Calwen
flashvalley.com

Thanks for that.

If there is anything being copied from this website, contact Faken directly: http://www.pixel2life.com/contact/

This is nothing new, you`ll find 100`s of tutorial sites do this and there is no way to 100% protect them disabling hotllinking is also kinda useless as they just come and take the images directly from your site and textéflash content, adding watermarks is lame they can easily be removed. Contacting other authors is also useless others have been and done that long before this to no avail, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your walking the road 1,000`s have walked before you. Posting their website also makes yours vunerable if they decide to be nasty. You could try a DMCA but I highly doubt you`ll get much response in China.

Not sure the "why bother" attitude is the correct way to go though.

When there's nothing to do about it, it's the only attitude you can have. China doesn't care about DMCA at all and these sites will always exist. Even if you can get one to shutdown, another will simply popup the next day.

So unless it's something major that you can do something about it, I wouldn't care too much about these sites.