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My IP address has been logged?
Guffrey
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I was looking at an engagement ring my girlfriend is interested in at www.carat.cc, and I right clicked on one of them to open in a new tab. I got an error box that popped up and said "This site is copyright protected. Your IP address has been logged". I've never had that happen before, whats that about?
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As far as the contents of the message, I've never seen that particular one. I wouldn't guess it's anything important, but it's curious.
I don't know why it matters to them, but it seems that's what it is.
A lot of site makers/coders simply implement this into their designs.
If you're making something commercial you put a lot of work into it and don't want people ripping off your work, this includes images. It's really just another way to try and protect their investment with little impact or cost to them.
Fyi: when requesting a webpage, the webserver receives the request which includes source ip. Even if they dont give a message it's easy for (and likely that) the requests to be logged.
as far as why they do it, its probably to intimidate those who might want to copy their designs.
It is, of course, incredibly dumb. It's trivial to simply disable javascript, AND in order for an image to be viewed (unless it's in flash), it needs to be downloaded to your computer. All you'd have to do is dig around in your cache if you wanted to get the image. Or, even easier, just look at their source code and see what the link is to their picture. But no, the alert is just an automated javascript. You didn't trigger anything bad.
Seconded. Some dumb manager was able to convince/bully an engineer into implementing this "protection". Don't worry about it.
Also, I just went to the site and I was able to right click just fine. FF + Noscript + carat.cc allowed.
You should be able to middle-click a link to open a new tab.
Trying to prevent a user from right-clicking in a page is a futile exercise. With Firefox, if they want the source they can get it from the Page Source option from the View menu.. If they want images they can get it from the browser's cache or the Media tab of the Page Info window. You can also set an option to prevent scripts from detecting when you right-click.
If someone really wanted something from a site they could just run a packet sniffer.
It really is the silliest bit of script I've ever encountered, and I don't understand how it makes anyone feel safe. The people who wouldn't be able to get past this are the same people who wouldn't know what to do with the code, anyway.
They can, but under most circumstances they don't have to. We actually had a pretty big court ruling about a month or two ago regarding this issue.
What's weird is that I don't have this problem browsing that site. Where did you click?
But if it's either a) a site that's trying to do some kind of business with you (selling you something, banking, etc.) or b) a forum, odds are they do, just because it's very useful to do so.
Therefore boycott them, bunch of idiots. Like refusing to let in people who turn up to the shop in jeans.
This is also the reason why I never buy anything from a site that requires Internet Explorer.
I have a client who thought that the right-click thing actually did something. Luckily I beat it out of him.
Uhh, as far as your IP, worthless.
This guy:
1) Uses lame ass javascript that does nothing
2) Thinks IP addresses are of any value in the court of law without accompanying evidence that he could not possibly collect without a subpoena + legal fees.
Those are two characteristics of someone you do NOT want to give your credit card info to. Take it from me, I've worked for enough of these crazies.
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Second, If the RIAA win earlier this week becomes precedent, then you are legally responsible for any connections made from your IP. It would behoove the internet at large to reflect on that.
No, impossible, because there are easy ways to falsify your IP address and make it look like someone elses. The reason that the RIAA didn't have a problem is because they not only had proof from the womans ISP that it was indeed her, but her personal e-mail address also matches her Kazaa username. The IP address was a minor part of that case.
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