jxself properly states that the decision of whether to block (403) or allow
(200) is up to the server, which is where my .htaccess file resides. All the
server can do is allow or deny access to the data that I am paying them to
make available to the public. It's data which I created with my own efforts
and expertise ... and it's copyrighted according to U.S. law. A lot is lost
when that data is presented out of its original context. I do not mind when
the source is displayed along with the data; some folks actually do ask for
permission before re-publishing that data.
That said, what I am seeing is that when my ISP's service technician opens
the same URL that is publishing my copyrighted material without permission,
attribution, or paying for its storage, that material produces a 403
response. When I open that URL from the same laptop and wireless router as
the one about which this discussion centers, but from the Trisquel
installation that resides on a USB-connected hard drive, it produces the same
403 response as that which my ISP technician gets. Therefore, the rephrased
question to be answered is: What is different between these two Trisquel
installations, and how do I find that difference ? It happens for both
Abrowser and Icecat. And it happens even after I have deleted the browsing
history from Abrowser.
An aside: I belatedly discovered that on the very same webpage as the other
two images are displayed, there is a third image of mine which has had its
URL "laundered" through a third party who actually did make attribution, but
who fails to protect its own presentation from being appropriated by the
present two domains. All .I can do for that image is to block the third
party's access to the image, because my domain is not in the URL that points
to my image from the offending webpage.
George Langford
amenex
