I’ve been noticing a substantial uptick in incoming links from Russian websites, mainly this one: nnm.ru. So I backtracked the source, and found that The CC GraveYard Tour ( Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five) is quite the hit in Russia! And now it’s found its way to other sites, like acidcow.com. No permission asked, of course. Although Poland’s top car blog, autokult.pl has just contacted me to ask for permission (yes, but not all 99 of them, with hot links back to CC). Anybody know how to write in Russian to ask them to just steal some of them and not all?
You could try using Babelfish or Google. Just type out what you want to tell them then click on translate to Russian.
Edit: I just went to Babelfish and they have a translation for Ukrainian only. I don’t know if that’s different than Russian.
Try this link:http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=BTg&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Don%27t+%D0%B2%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8+%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%97+%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%96!&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=878&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wT#en|ru|
Thanks; realistically, it’s probably more trouble than its worth…I sent acidcow a message in protest, but what am I going to do, sue them? 🙂 Whatever…
Paul,
As a professional Russian interpreter I would strongly advise against using these online translator tools. Because they do not relay the message and what is worse (or worst) they make you look very funny.
If you need assistance with this matter, please drop me a line. Of course, no charge, as it’s gonna be fun.
I was wondering what you do from reading your posts on here and over at TTAC. Very interesting.
You know, you should ask them to provide you in kind with shots of Russian car graveyard as payments. You know, junkyard with derelict Moskvitch, Volgas and Ladas, with odd Zapporozhets or two, ought to be interesting! Though I wonder how quickly derelict cars in mother Russia returned back to Earth, given its rather extreme weather, not to mention metal quality of the cars themselves. Even still running cars seem to rust badly.
I did, of the Polish site that contacted me. The Russian site is a general interest photo-oriented site, but I could scour their automotive section and see if anything looks good.
Send ’em a copy of “Dr. Strangelove” (purely in jest of course…) and maybe an autographed picture of Slim Pickens 😛
That’s probably the most practical suggestion!
“Slim Pickens”
He died in the nursing facility a block away from my Modesto, California shanty back in the early 1980s.
Far from my current shanty locale atop the Ozark Plateau.
I still remember the rainy chilly winter night when the local radio station told of his death.
Wow. All the way around the world and back in a year. Pretty impressive.
Maybe a “curbsideclassic.com” watermark on the pictures? I see where some other sites do this. Of course, that won’t stop some places from using what they please anyhow.
In Russia are whole town, airport, ship in junkyard! Should be easy to find car in Russian junkyard!
Could it be a revenge attack fom the Leyland apologists club for using their images. despite the glowing write up of their idol they didnt seem impressed. Just sayin
Oh, Lord…the Leyland P76 guys made the blindly loyal Avanti fans seem positively open-minded…
Should be plenty of curbside classics near Chernobyl. Insist they take some shots from there. There’s a few CCs in this website, plus some cool helicopters.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/author.html
There are some haunting pics there.
Good site but one scary place
What an interesting website that is – eerie but fascinating… Thanks for posting the link.
Hi, Paul!
I’m russian 🙂
I can help you with text if you want ))
C наилучшими пожеланиями, Илья! ))
Thanks; I’ve had other offers too. Frankly, it’s a losing battle, as numerous blogs pick it up and pass it on; the CC Junkyard has gone viral in that part of the world. Not really any actual harm, except for the principle of the thing.
Ok! ))
You can write me, if you will need! 🙂
If I’m reading you right Paul it’s the bandwidth theft more than the unauthorised reproduction of content that’s the issue here? There are ways of preventing hotlinking of images altogether if that’s an route you feel like following?
This site:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/
Has a lot of helpful info and guidance on the subject, might be worth you (or your designated tech-head) taking a look at it.
It might seem churlish, but CC’s servers have enough on with all us avid readers to cater to, without also being slugged by image-theiving sites elsewhere. After all if someone wants to reproduce your content in another language they can always get in touch and ask (and then host the images on their own servers!)
Hope that helps