Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking

Fuddruckers, a hamburger chain, hotlinked to a flash game developer’s Burgertime clone on their ‘Fuddrockers’ page. When the developer noticed an abnormal amount of traffic coming from their website, he decided to let the company know how he felt — and maybe teach them about hotlinking..” From the post: “So, I redirected everything coming from Fuddruckers.com. (learned all about .htaccess files also… neat!) Wrote a nice little message pointing out how incredibly stupid their web developer is. And then redirected the main page to a pleasant little website showing photographs of slaughterhouses. And also opened up some more popups, for those that don’t have popup blockers.

Ha, this is great stuff. It will definitely teach them to get a better web developer.. Source: Slashdot.