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Re: Teaching Bandwidth Thieves a Lesson
Posted By: R In Response To: Teaching Bandwidth Thieves a Lesson (SBM)
Date: Friday, 1 September 2006, at 4:36 a.m.
I think it makes perfect sense. Now, you just sit back and hope they have a ton of "friends."
> I was checking my site stats earlier and I noticed a referring website
> that showed up several times. Out of curiosity I went to the site to see
> what it was about.> Turns out it is somebody's personal "socializing" site, and the
> reason it was showing up in my stats was because they have hotlinked to
> one of my images. Had they just taken the image I wouldn't have minded,
> but the fact that they hotlinked to it ticked me off, so I decided to do
> something about it.> I created a new image the same size as the one they are hotlinked to that
> says, "I'm Stealing Bandwidth from" and included my url. I then
> named it the same as the image they are linked to. Now whenever anybody
> goes to their site they see that image instead of the one the bandwidth
> thief thinks is there.> I know I could just delete the image they've linked to but, they are
> stealing MY bandwidth and if I can get some free advertising out of it,
> why not.> What do you think?
do you think?
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