Karl Eichwalder wrote:
"Allan Crossman" a.crossman@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
Is there a way to prevent abominations like www.powerpedia.org, which put Wikipedia in a frame with their own adverts?
It is not allowed what they are doing. Thus, it is a social problem, don't try to solve it with technical messures.
Technical measures are often effective to solve social problems. It's easier than suing. You're better off locking your door than prosecuting anyone who enters for trespassing.
While that particular site is probably not very important, I can see this becoming more of an issue. Would it be possible for Wikipedia pages to use that lovely bit of Javascript so common nowadays, which automatically breaks out of frames?
They can use a prefilter to through away this code, though. Better tell them it is illegal what they are doing and ask them to stop stealing bandwidth.
If they have to filter the code then it wouldn't be an effective method for stealing bandwidth, would it? It would just be a really inefficient mirror.
-- Tim Starling