Direct Linking To Our Site

[LeperMessiah26]

Im getting fed up, of people direct linking to our website, they have their own website, but link shows my ours, Mikes, anyone elses site, instead of making pages themselves

They dont ask permission, just do it, and fuck it, that seems to be the motto here, a few people have asked permission, but i say no, too much time and effort has gone into making and maintaining the website, why should someone just link to it? I find it fuckin annoying, disrespectful and i want it to stop pronto!

So, everyone who links to lepermessiahtrading.com, PLEASE REMOVE THE LINKS I wont mention names, but you all know who you are

For the money Caleb charges for his MHS software, NO ONE can complain its expensive, its not hard to use, and you can all have wonderful looking websites
Feel free to take information from our site, set lists, length etc, but DONT, use the screenshots or comments

This might sound like a petty thing to feel/post, and what does it matter? But if i added up all the time its taken me to make screens, make pages etc, it would add up to probably 10 or 11 months, thats nearly a year of my life just making screens and pages , and people come along and think, *Im not doing that, i have better things to do, i`ll just link to that site* Well fuck you, lazy bastards, i will just take the site down, and then all your links are gone!

Everyone wants something for free, or as little effort as possible these days, upload this, upload that, link here, link there, if it would be an illness, it would be lazy-bastard-itus

Im not sure what Mike, and other people think about it, maybe nothing, they may not care less, but i do, so again, PLEASE REMOVE THE LINKS

I dont want PM`s, saying sorry etc, just remove the links, and all is good

Failure to do so, i will just remove the site, and have a txt list instead

Thanks for reading
Michael & Katrin

[FBM]

Well,
I had my OWN site, too, and I owe around 350 shows probably by now, not as much as you I guess, but even that took alot of time to make pages for every single show (yes I did my own infopages..)
So on the one side I can totally understand you, you spend lots of time with taking screens and searching all the setlists and so on but on the other side you have to accept, that if you publish a website everybody is able to link to it. You can please them not to do so, but you can not order them to do so.
Personally I would just ignore it (I don't know how much you pay for your server and how much you have to pay for people linking to your site, but also remember that it is a pretty good advertising, isn't it?)

Fabian

[Metfan72]

Hey Michael, you know I am in the process of making my own and I am quickly learning how much work it really is.

My question is this? Can we still link you if we are creating a torrent for screens and info.

I ask this because I myself do not have screens up yet and won't for some time, but figured I would ask in advance in case a situation arises where you have a show listed that Mike does not.

Thanks in advance and sorry to hear people are just taking all your hard work instead of taking the time like those of us that have MHS are doing.

[sjmike]

I personally don't mind if people link to my info pages as long as they ask me 1st. I figure it helps get my site more exposure by also being featured on other people's sites. I can totally understand where you're coming from after all the effort you and Kat have put into it. It takes countless hours to take screenshots, write up accurate track listings and more.

I've been fortunate enough to have a lot of great people help me with screenshot, setlists, cover art and more so I didn't have to spend the countless hours doing it all (they've all been well compensated with shows).

[sjmike]

Hey Michael, you know I am in the process of making my own and I am quickly learning how much work it really is.

My question is this? Can we still link you if we are creating a torrent for screens and info.

I ask this because I myself do not have screens up yet and won't for some time, but figured I would ask in advance in case a situation arises where you have a show listed that Mike does not.

Thanks in advance and sorry to hear people are just taking all your hard work instead of taking the time like those of us that have MHS are doing.

I think that part is fine. He's referring to people who use his info page links on their trading websites as part of their lists.

[Metfan72]

Thanks, but I wanted to cover that as well instead of possibly getting backlash for it.

I thought it would be cool too.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

http://trixinity.net/tutorials/coding/disable-dl.php

Never tried though (I use javascript obfuscation on demos.metpage.org)

[maidencolorado]

This may well be my first direct interaction with you, Michael. First, I wanted to say thank you for what you and Kat do for the community, taking the time and effort to post the information you do, recording shows, authoring shows and the generosity you have in helping other traders, especially newer ones with your willingness to share recordings.

I see this hobby based on trust and respect for tapers, filmers and traders. Your request is that people stop linking to your site, you aren't in any way saying they can't use it a a reference point. Generous again to say

Feel free to take information from our site, set lists, length etc, but DONT, use the screenshots or comments

I'm in the process of redoing my site, and honestly the time and effort I'd have to put into setting up screenshots and comments on each show is a bit daunting. I'm not sure when all is said and done that I'd be any too appreciative of someone coming along and linking to the work and time I put in.

I know different people have different feelings on the issue, but as I see it, it comes down to honoring a simple request from a valued member here.

[130269]

All links removed !

[M4ST3R M1K3]

how does that obfuscation thingy work? Just out of curiosity

http://aspirine.org/emailcode_en.html
It converts html code to javascript
It doesn't avoid hotlinking but other people can't read the urls from your page.

http://demos.metpage.org/MOP.htm check the source, you won't find the urls of the hosted mp3