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Re:Exterminate the Parasites: Mark Cuban's radical plan to s... by wmf on Saturday September 05, 2009 @08:26PM (#807273)
If they're going to implement such a crazy thing, they might as well also block requests that have no referer.
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Re:Exterminate the Parasites: Mark Cuban's radical plan to s... by ojbyrne on Saturday September 05, 2009 @11:28PM (#807429)
Which inevitably leads to a kazaa/napster like escalation of arms where just about everyone disables referer headers, after which content providers lobby to make that illegal.
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