Didn't we already discuss this here? And everyone was whining about how horrible and unprofessional and maybe illegal it was? It was annoying.

At least this discussion is shaping up quite differently so far.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271345

Simple but effective way to get the owner to pay up. Although I remember seeing this on reddit a week or two back, so maybe not that effective? Just out of curiosity what are the legal ramifications of doing this? Could it be considered defacing the site and some how fall under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or since the owner never payed/didn't pay the full amount is the site still the property of the dev?

Who stiffed who is relative and incredibly debatable, did you see that site? Looks like a mashup of ad banners.

jokes aside, where is the backstory? Not that this is news but it 'ould be an interesting story and experience dealing with difficult customers which i dont actually have to deal with is always welcome.

And it's shown up on their yelp page... http://www.yelp.com/biz/nyc-fresh-market-new-york

Don't do this kind of thing, please.

Original post on Google+ (not mine) - https://plus.google.com/+DirkTalamasca/posts/1o2AcJX5sbJ

I'm a fan of requiring payment before pushing to production / launch.

would love to hear from the developer/designer some backstory about this.

That's how you do it!