Make Flash file automatically go to another website

OK, so on our site, we have a Flash movie that one of our admins made. And some bastards from another site are hotlinking to it, leeching our bandwidth (not to mention stealing our content).

Normally, I'd just e-mail the webmater of that site and nicely tell them to go f themselves, but not a word of that site is in English (I think it's in Thai?) and I can't find anything that remotely looks like a contact link or e-mail address. So, I made a flash movie that said they're a bunch of *******s who steal bandwidth, renamed the file on our site to a different filename and updated our links to point to the new one, and uploaded my new file, so their site said that they were a bunch of *******s who steal bandwidth

But, they got clever and fixed the link. So now, I want to make a Flash file that automatically loads a website (I'm thinking something bad, like one of the shock sites, or maybe just our site, we can use the free advertising) the second the file loads, so anyone who goes to their site is immediately redirected. Perhaps this will lock the admins out of their site unless they figure out how to disable Flash. Looks like their site is hosted on a Thai version of MySpace or something like that, so if they have to go to their site to login, they can't Anyone know how to do this redirection? Thanks

MiniMan. said:

you could just put your website address in the corner of the flash file couldnt you?, Just put a button in the corner saying your web address.

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I could, but I'd rather make him regret stealing our bandwidth that we pay for.

Thanks for the help guys.

None of that worked though (well, it worked, but didn't stop the guy from hotlinking). So I just replaced our flash file with meatspin (don't ask, AND DO NOT GO THERE) and now they're no longer hotlinking to our stuff

ezekielrage_99 said:

You could also put that javascript in that disables "save as" and "save" commands into the html file that worked for my online portfolio.

I know exactly how you feel, when I finished uiniversity a few years ago I got a rude shock in a an interview when the interviewer told me that he already saw the same work I was showing them from another candidate. I did finally find out that the person was a student I went to university with, he was ripping off everyone else's work for his "own" portfolio and I wasn't the only person burnt by him either....

Some people are complete pricks.

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There are so many ways around that Javascript...for one, you could just disable JS. Its pointless.

And yeah, stuff like that pisses me off to. In my web design class in college, we put all of our stuff online for everyone to see. The assignment was over PHP, and since I've known PHP for years and consider myself an expert, and this assignment was extremely stupid, basic, easy crap, I did it shortly after it was assigned (we had like a month to do it) and got it out of the way. Well, we post not only the working PHP file on our site, we also post the source code. So some jerkoff steals my code, alters a few things, turns it in as his own. I had no idea this happened....so imagine my shock a few weeks later when I get an e-mail from the grader saying that we cheated off each other and were both going to lose 5 points. I was PISSED. Fortunately, the other guy came clean and took 100% of the blame, and I didn't lose any points, but I was still pissed. Pissed that he took the code, and pissed that he was able to turn in my code and just lost 5 points for plagarism, because the teacher just didn't really care about the class. My code was perfect (I got all 50 possible points). So since he turns in my perfect code and just gets a 5 point deduction, he still gets an A with work he didn't do. Most professors will give a zero on an assignment if someone's caught cheating and some will report them. And this guy still gets an A. I learned my lesson after that...I didn't post any completed work online until about 5 minutes before it was due.

Fortunately, this case of someone stealing our work wasn't in an academic setting, and I could have fun and be cruel with the thief. Hopefully for him, the time he was able to steal our SWF and claim it as his own was worth the spinning penis and "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" that was playing on his site for the better part of the day