Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Internet Lesson #439 - Don't Cross A Web Designer

It appears that for a short period of time on Tuesday this special message appeared on John McCain's MySpace page...

I really wish I would have seen this before knowing the explanation behind it, because I think the shock would have ultimately resulted in my pants being ruined. The explanation, as Keith Olbermann's blog states, is that "the site was hacked over a breach of netiquette by McCain's web people, who were using a free page template without giving credit, and 'hotlinking' images from the designer's site, using his bandwidth."

The best part...the guy responsible openly discusses the entire incident on his website. Somebody needs to give this guy an award for 'Most Hilarious Copyright Infringement-Related Revenge'.

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