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Piratizer13Jun/08
Leech Revenge
In general it's not a good idea to hotlink other people's images on your web site. There are all the standard reasons: the ethical dilemmas of stealing somebody else's bandwidth, the copyright violations, etc.. There's also the completely practical reason: the danger that they might get mad and swap the image out from under you and make you look like a fool.
For example, consider the following MySpace user. He's apparently interested in AC/DC, Metallica, and stealing pictures of other people's laptops:
Today, with incredibly poor timing, he apparently decided to come out of the closet as one of those crazy Ron Paul supporters:
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June 14th, 2008 - 16:06
I think that you definitely took it easy on him, but quite entertainingly so nonetheless. Hopefully (though doubtfully) he has now learned his lesson.
June 16th, 2008 - 05:55
Hee-Hee! So, how’d you find that he’d hotlinked the image?
Wonder if he’s noticed yet…
June 17th, 2008 - 22:02
When I was going through my server logs for the preceding stats post I noticed a whole ton of hits on that Macbook image, most coming from this MySpace page. More people were hitting that than were hitting my own site, so that wasn’t good
June 20th, 2008 - 13:15
nice play