love4history Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Hi Does anybody know what happened to http://users.skynet.be/belgianordersandmedals/ ? The site seems to be offline? Cheers l4h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPL Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Hi Does anybody know what happened to http://users.skynet....rdersandmedals/ ? The site seems to be offline? Cheers l4h Try this link: http://users.skynet.be/hendrik/index.html Jean-Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_deploige Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 The owner of the website put down his website, because ther was some abuse of the information and the pictures of his site Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megan Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 (edited) If you mean Hendrik Meersschaert's excellent site covering Belgian medals of all periods and those of other countries relating to the 2nd World War, that's still going strong at the address Jean-Paul mentioned, although there have been no updates since last August. As for http://users.skynet.be/belgianordersandmedals/ - the Wayback Machine's last record of it is from February 2008; it had heavily-watermarked images which does suggest that the site owner was troubled by image reuse (although he'd been using my medal ribbon images!). Quite a lot of useful information, but all in Flemish. Edited January 26, 2010 by Megan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_deploige Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 If you mean Hendrik Meersschaert's excellent site covering Belgian medals of all periods and those of other countries relating to the 2nd World War, that's still going strong at the address Jean-Paul mentioned, although there have been no updates since last August. Dear Megan I have about the website of the first post : http://users.skynet.be/belgianordersandmedals/ , this is not the website of Hendrik Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love4history Posted January 27, 2010 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 No, Hendrik's site is alive and well (I think) I did mean the other site, which was a nice addition to Hendrik's. It had (among other things) a nice section on Belgian labour medals and Belgian Congo. A pity it closed down. As for the copyright infringements. Once you put things on the internet de facto it almost seems everything's up for grabs. On auction sites I sometimes see parts of Hendrik's site blatantly copied in the description of the medals. More often then not by the same sellers all the time. They don't even always take the time to verify the info with the medal they're selling. On the other hand Hendrik's site (and others) has informed countless enthusiasts and collectors and helped them along on the learning curve. Me being one of them I might add. If all info would be stored away privately because of some abuses, it would become a lonely hobby indeed eh? food for thought. cheers l4h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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