Is Your Cat Posted on This Site without your Knowledge????

Whew! That's good to know. I think the website is gone now, the link just came up invalid!

Originally posted by hissy
I think the website is gone now, the link just came up invalid!

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Hmmm...so it seems...I just got a "network problem" message!

I just got a "Could not be found" message.

It's still there, under

http://www.strangecosmos.com

The original URL had "strangeScosmos.com"

I also cannot access it.

Just one final note- this website listed has been getting a lot of traffic today from all of us which bumps it up in the ratings traffic on the search engines. It has also been reported by several people, so perhaps the visiting can stop ( I would hate to add to this person's popularity) and maybe one or two complaints will hit their mark and the host server do something about it. I did notice the really offensive cat related photos are now gone.

Good work guys-

It's saying my request is invalid, so i can't get on?.
If anyone sees Rosie, please let me know.

Susan

They have been moved around but not gone -
http://www.strangecosmos.com/jokes/p...egory_id=5&m=5

The offending picture is the one titled "cat lovers do not look at this"

Theres some sad, sick people around to have sites like that one, especially the "cat lovers do not look at this" .


Susan

I'm gonna do what MA says and not even dignify the site with a looksee because that is what they want.....I guess they like to shock people and make people mad so they can enjoy it while they can.

Scott and others who have websites with photos...

My DH has written code to help stop people from stealing his bandwith (he runs a wallpaper site). People can still copy pics, but at least they won't be dragging down your site. I don't know how techie you are but if you can make it work for you, feel free to use it.

The code is posted on his website, for others to use.

Here's a link to the page with the code:

Deep Linking Code

This is what happens when you try to link to a pic at his website:

See.... I leave the catsite for a little while and our babies photos are all over the internet!!!



Hope I helped and didn't cause extra grief!

I had visited the site last night and saw several TCS pics on it. Those pics are submitted by others to that site, but mostly it's all pics that have been emailed about for years.

I agree some of the photos were in bad taste, but I remember a site that was worse a couple of years ago that was being hosted by MIT until a bunch of us got it moved. They claim it's a joke but it doesn't appear to be so. There are people like that out there and the best thing we can do is to avoid them and when they break the law report them.

Well I went there and went through some of the links. A few pics were cute pics or intersting pics. I mean a FEW. There are alot of animal pics that shouldnt be there. There are even FOUL pics..several that are...well perverted. Maybe we can get that site taken down or something! They should be forced to atleast remove pics that show animals in danger or worse like the "cat lovers dont look" pic. The one saying for "cat lovers to not look" at even says "dont email us-dont" GRrrrrrrrrr! That was NOT a funny pic. Noone look at it. Lets just say the kitty's not alive. Why do people make sites like this! I bet if the site's hosters get enough email then they will have to shut down the site!

Lhezzza

I followed your link and it says that part is shut down.

I haven't found anything offensive on this site yet....

Sounds sick though.

Well nothing on here offended me.

I was reading the index page and it clearly stated.

Do not proceed if you are easily offended.

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You've been warned.

That site is not anywhere near as clean as it claims. Besides showing photos that it hasn't obtained permission for, it contains a lot of photos with perverted captions, so I guess only perverted people without any taste won't be offended. Has anyone here read their lame disclaimer? "Disclaimer: We do our best to avoid copyrighted material. If anything on this site has been copyrighted by you, please contact us so we can remove it or give you credit!"

Bascially, it translates to:

"We steal any photos we see and hope nobody notices. We'll show them on our web site for as long as we can get away with it."

Oh yeah... and for the sheer number of photos the site has that are supposedly submitted, can anyone tell me why it doesn't have a submit photo link. I can easily deduct the reasoning for why they don't. I think everyone else here can too.

That is why I stopped making blinkies and other graphics, even though i would let people have them for free they would STILL steal my bandwidth and not email me before taking them. People are just so rude some times! I used to water mark the photos, but they do take away from the pic, although I think sometime they are needed.

What made me laugh was that the photos that were stolen the person was naive enough to place their website addy on it as a sort of copyright to it! As my letter of complaint stated, I doubt that John Lund, Diane Townsend and other photographers would be pleased that this happened to their work.