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Traffic surged a few months ago when I started sharing cracked Mac software. Now the bill is slowly coming due — what goes around comes around. Let me use this as a cautionary tale to explain the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Sharing cracked software was a new experiment on my personal blog — alongside other experiments like current news, movie sharing, and various IT mirror downloads. Today I'll talk about what I learned from those experiments; I'll cover the others another day.
Any webmaster would be curious why Apple's China site moved from apple.com to apple.com.cn. What's good about a CN domain? Why does Apple like CN? Let me analyze it based on my own site-running experience.
Webmasters generally only have a few ad partners to choose from: Google AdSense, Baidu Union, and Alimama. When I first entered webmaster circles everyone praised Google AdSense's high revenue, so I applied back then — and kept getting rejected. This year I kept the site updated and posted original, high-quality articles, and early this year I finally passed AdSense review, reaching the PIN mailing threshold within a few months.
Yesterday I suddenly found that the keyword 'Renfei's Blog' triggered Google Sitelink. This is the second time I've triggered Google Sitelink — the first was in February 2014. Because I changed domains, the new domain triggered Google Sitelink again, so I'll share my experience of triggering it twice.
Download sites were very popular several years ago, but because bandwidth and traffic were expensive, many download sites began hotlinking — visitors click download on someone else's page but use my server's traffic, causing huge bandwidth theft. So hotlink protection is a required course for download sites.
Earlier I tried to find out who the past owners of the domain I currently use were, curious about what they had used it for. Following up on 'The Story of My Domain: Digging Through Its Past and Present,' I continue to explore who those past owners were.
After strengthening the address bar in 2018, Google Chrome hid the HTTP protocol field and the WWW field by default. In Chrome 85, Google again adds a series of new flags aimed at removing the full URL from the address bar.
With growing copyright awareness and an improving copyright law, plus the establishment of internet courts, a brand-new gray industry was born: infringement claims. The targets are media platforms such as websites, official accounts, and Weibo platforms, with images and fonts as bait for batch lawsuits claiming infringement.
Baidu has officially shut down the MIP feature; the MIP entry on the webmaster tools platform is closed, and by June 30, 2020 the MIP Cache service will be gradually retired. Baidu is now pushing mini-programs, and MIP is another project axed after Bear Palm (Xiongzhang). MIP stands for Mobile Instant Pages — a mobile web acceleration protocol launched by Baidu, mirroring Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). Its main function is to accelerate mobile web page loading by standardizing HTML code, JS code, and Cache caching.
