lol, copying isn’t theft. You already had to download a copy just to view it. That’s how websites work.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
If you copy something you are not entitled to because of copyright, it's copyright infringement.
With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.
Not the same thing, and calling it theft is purely a propaganda term invented by the media industry.
It should also be noted that copyright laws usually have all sorts of exceptions for fair use such as satire, education, etc. Typically, keeping and even using a copy without permission is legally allowed under certain circumstances.
Just a word of caution. Even if you have a valid fair use claim they have to be adjudicated and the legal costs can get pricey. Worse if you’re found liable.
Check out Lawful Masses on YouTube for plenty of examples of copyright trolls using this as a bludgeon.
"Tools" -> "Page info" -> "Media" menu on Firefox - you can even see and save the images that the browser already downloaded.
ah, yes, the right click menu
This is why Apple pushed so hard for 1-button mice
you focus on that popup and ignore all the crank shit that is on this page
yes a piece of granite (?) with $60 pricetag put on my amplifier COMPLETELY changes how my vinyls sound like
statements dreamed of by the utterly deranged
Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?
They have played us for absolute fools
A piece of granite placed on the turntable would change how his records sound, but not necessarily in a good way.
Depending on the artist of course.
I always found these anti-right-click scripts funny since they usually don't block Ctrl+S to save the page, Ctrl+U to view source, or Ctrl+P to print (or these days, F12 to open the browser dev tools)
My personal favorite is Ctrl+Shift+C which brings up Dev tools in selection mode, so you can click on the picture or whatever and be taken straight to its HTML code.
Shift + right-click will override all this BS in Firefox.
I just turn off JavaScript and then right click works again.
All this does is infuriate actual users trying to use your site. Content thieves will just download it via a script or curl and you won't be able to do anything about it.
There is a 100% chance this warning correlates with the actual content on this site being hot garbage
it is
Audiophile equipment is just magic crystal bullshit for pseudointellectuals.
To an extent yes but it's essentially just extreme deminishing returns
there are both categories.
Some things are marginally better and incredibly expensive.
Other things, such as garden hose power snakes and these "audiophile crystals" are just pure scam.
He should just ask for a donation. His work isn't that valuable
Considering they think putting rocks on top of your playing equipment changes the sound, their work has negative value.
Technically, a weight on top of AV equipment's cases will change the resonant properties of the chassis but that does not produce audible effects unless it's on the speaker cone. The author considers this and dismisses the possibility because “rocks not heavy enough”.
Also, a sufficiently large rock will affect the performance of any Hi-Fi equipment.
In my whole life I never bought digital audio or video content on vinyl, VHS, CD, DVD, Blueray. Never ever. It sounds as weird to me like paying for air to breath.
But one day I visited a live concert of a small band which I loved as a teenager. After the show I met with their drummer, gave him €200 cash and said "You know, when I was young you were cool about kids copying your music without paying. You told us if we like you music we can enjoy it. And if we can afford it, we can pay you. Back then I couldn't. Today I can."
And so I paid them five times as much as I saved back then by copying their music.
You are a very good person.
This is utterly irrelevant to people copying multi-million sales dickshits like Metallica.
Don't get scammed with audiophile rocks. I've done my research and found out that audiophile rock salt does the exact same thing and it is MUCH cheaper! Feel free to copy this and spread the word!
Are you sure it isn’t the kitty sticker?
..... Jesus fucking christ. My research is invalid. I'm going to have to start all over again. 🤬
Probably the source of their problem:
Copyright Infringement – Outing – dasklang.com, isecope.com, headgamesonline.com and technocratsblog.com
As I See It, News, comments & Information
Apr 16, 2019
Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.
I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.
The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.
As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.
I was about to give some empathy for the dude but their articles are trash and they would be lucky if we stole them.
In Firefox, you can bypass most of this bullshit by holding down shift. There are some other tricks the website uses, but disabling Javascript (
in uBlock) bypasses all of the weird restrictions this site tries to throw at you.
I think this has to do with this article:
Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.
I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.
The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.
As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.
I have no idea why someone would steal from a website that reviews audio "setups" like these. The website doesn't even have working HTTPS. I'm guessing it's all just automated ad fraud/SEO hacking websites copying random stuff, and the author treating that as a serious copyright offence.
It looks like this weird website also stole the author's blog post, probably to get better ranking on Google. I can't find a way to reach the stolen review from the front page, so it's probably a Google SEO hack. That website is full of them as well. I would probably be pissed off about these audiophile scammers copying my stuff for cheap SEO hacking as well, but a right clicking script isn't going to change any of this, as the scrapers are probably running modified browser engines rather than doing all of this work manually.
Now I want to go there and steal everything.
Meanwhile, their robots.txt doesn't disallow GPTBot or Google Bard. So apparently they're okay with content being stolen by for-profit companies.
I was going to copy content from the page using Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy in Firefox, but then I realized the content isn't worth copying.
So yes, there are add-ons to easily extract text and bypass this. The text is sent to your computer. It's your computer. You can copy the content.
looks like its just setting some events, these two lines should clear the anti-select and the anti-right click respectively if pasted into the debug console:
document.body.onselectstart = undefined
document.oncontextmenu = undefined
Can someone in a country that doesn't give a crap about his country's copyright laws wget that whole site for me?
http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/
just in case someone feels like right-clicking. (CTRL+Shift+K opens the console in Firefox, but shht)
I run NoScript and I can right-click just fine.
This was more or less standard 20 years ago!
Even disabling the ability to select text and sometimes also dissabling the Ctrl + C shortcut!
Seems like the kind of thing a person does when they understand technology well enough to use it badly but don't recognize that it's ineffective against anyone willing to type "enable right click" into their search engine of choice.
How much do you want to bet that they didn't write the JavaScript for that message and it's just been copied and edited? Probably even right-clicked to do it, the scalawag.
How much do you want to bet that they didn't write the JavaScript for that message
They definitely didn't-- the page source has it copied from another blog:
/******************************************************************************
*** COPY PROTECTED BY http://chetangole.com/blog/wp-copyprotect/ version 3.1.0 ****
******************************************************************************/
var message="Copying my work, without written permission is theft. You are not helping me, only yourself, and you are a thief. Reproduce my work and I will come after you legally.";
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
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