strange theft

Started noticing requests for my stylesheet from someplace else

[Luddite]

Here's a strange one:

I started seeing requests for my CSS file yesterday - but ONLY my CSS file with www.theirdomain.com/mypagename.htm as referer where www.mysite.com/mypagename.cgi is dynamic.

www.mysite.com is new. It ranks well in G, but only for niche words totally unrelated to theirsite.com. it's still PR0..

This confused the h*ll out of me.

Loading theirsite/mypagename in firefox showed my content very briefly before being re-directed to their site's main page. Loading thiersite.com/mypagename in konquerer with redirects shut off let me view source. What they had posted was static output from my CGI, with a meta refresh at the bottom of the page. The fully qualified url to my stylesheet was still there.. huh?

I emailed and followed up with a call, mentioned copyright infringement and thier copy of my page was taken down. Not sure what they were trying, but my htaccess bans them now...

Anyone have a clue?

[encyclo]

They were stealing your content (perhaps using it as a doorway page), but were dumb enough to leave the link to your stylesheet in the source. You will still need to monitor them to see if they do it again.

[treeline]

Yeah, you've got sleazeballs stealing your content. And they're not even good at it.

[Luddite]

>>They were stealing your content (perhaps using it as a doorway page), but were dumb enough to leave the link to your stylesheet in the source. You will still need to monitor them to see if they do it again.

I wondered about the doorway thing. Doesn't make much sense to me though - The CGI they scooped was a million miles away from their own content... Either way, If they do it again I'll DMCA their host. One warning is enough.