I know this story is about 24 hours old, but I had to post something about it.

What happens when you don’t give credit when credit is due?

If you are presidential hopeful John McCain you get your MySpace profile hacked. Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine, decided to take matters into his own hands when he wasn’t given credit for the MySpace profile he designed for the senator.

Davidson hacked into the senators profile and changed a few things, ok a few major things, that shocked readers when the visited McCain’s MySpace page. The following is from Mike’s own Newsvine Page:

You see, John McCain’s people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace design template and did a few things wrong:

1. They did not credit me for the template, even though the template explicitly requested credit.
2. They used my own unmodified imagery, specifically for the “Contacting John McCain” table.
3. As if #2 wasn’t bad enough, the McCain crew is actually pulling their image directly from my server on each page load. So every time someone visits the McCain MySpace page, my bandwidth is being used to deliver part of the page! Bad McCain!

When are people going to learn that you shouldn’t mess with computer experts? I give a nod to Davidson and say, “Nice Work.”

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