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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
At that point, you lose the alt-text and clever things like Click And Drag[1], and this also moves into not just a barely-actionable trademark claim, but a potential copyright claim. XKCD is currently Creative Commons, but there's nothing stopping him from changing the license on new comics.
It'd also hopefully grab the attention of the current 44,000 readers or so, and turn /r/xkcd into a ghost town overnight.
Comment by atimholt at 28/02/2014 at 02:09 UTC
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Higher up on xkcd: “This work is under a license based on Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License, with the exception that it may not be shared on reddit.com/r/xkcd, because the mods there are poopy-heads.”
Comment by xkcd_transcriber at 09/02/2014 at 22:51 UTC
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^Questions/Problems[1] ^| ^Website[2] ^| ^StopReplying[3]
1: http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd_transcriber/
2: http://xkcdref.info/statistics/
Comment by death-by_snoo-snoo at 18/02/2014 at 04:51 UTC
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Woah, that was crazy.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/05/2014 at 10:27 UTC
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I've seen that comic through the random button multiple times, and i had no idea you could do that.
Comment by goldguy81 at 25/06/2014 at 19:40 UTC
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[Old Post, but I couldn't help but post]
We'd lost http://www.xkcd.com/404[1], which is an official comic by the way.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/04/2014 at 19:34 UTC*
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You just need to get rid of the referer header then, so just bounce it through a referer stripping site (ie: anonym.to) or an awesome hack like this[1] or set up a web server to act as a reverse proxy that strips the referer header and cache the crap out of it so that you don't hit the xkcd servers every time and get noticed too easily.
1: http://referrer-killer.googlecode.com/git/example.html
It's just too easy to get around.
