Year of the Cock.
I was browsing our server logs and noticed quite a bit of traffic coming from a certain Chinese design site. Turns out, they weren't sending us traffic, but instead, simply stealing images. In the past, I hadn't really thought it was that big of a deal, I mean, sure, we are paying for bandwidth and all, and by linking directly to our images, you are consuming our bandwidth, but since it's common for blogs to show their love for other sites with a "Via" link, I never really paid much attention to it.
So then I come across this Chinese site and notice that, while they've got our images, they've also got our text. Except it's in Chinese. And without any "via" or other link thanking us hard-working folks here at L+L for the find. A quick Google translation would reveal that it was translated by someone named "Janel" with an origin of "china-idc". Janel, we're honestly flattered that you found some of the items we've featured likeable enough to put on your site, but not too happy about the way you've gone about it. Since you decided to not give us credit, I decided to (manually, for now) swap out the images with some that do give us credit. In the future, try being like (most) everyone else in the world of design blogs by giving proper credit and hosting the images on your own server. The world will be a much happier place if you do. :-)
So then I come across this Chinese site and notice that, while they've got our images, they've also got our text. Except it's in Chinese. And without any "via" or other link thanking us hard-working folks here at L+L for the find. A quick Google translation would reveal that it was translated by someone named "Janel" with an origin of "china-idc". Janel, we're honestly flattered that you found some of the items we've featured likeable enough to put on your site, but not too happy about the way you've gone about it. Since you decided to not give us credit, I decided to (manually, for now) swap out the images with some that do give us credit. In the future, try being like (most) everyone else in the world of design blogs by giving proper credit and hosting the images on your own server. The world will be a much happier place if you do. :-)
Update 4/21/2005: Well, that didn't take too long. Looks like Janel has decided that our "Visit Land+Living" images weren't appropriate for her site so now she's simply linking directly to the manufacturer's site. Hey Janel, what about that Via link I mentioned above? Since you're still using our text, it's only appropriate. And do the same for all the Moco Loco images and text you grabbed as well.
Via (oh, the irony!): China IDC
Chinese?
MoCo Loco is also an image server for China-IDC
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