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Teaching Bandwidth Thieves a Lesson
Posted By: SBM
Date: Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 2:47 p.m.
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?
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