Stealing Bandwidth
October 22nd, 2007 by
James
Bit unfortunate really - looks like this forum was directly linking to one of my images and stealing my bandwidth. What a shame I changed the image to something a little bit different to what they were after. Whoops!
Anybody got any suggestions of other messages you want to see me put in my image on my site? Oh what a pity it would be if somebody else happened to be linking to that image without asking me. :p
I was thinking something along the lines of a not-safe-for-work image, myself…
What was the image they wanted anyway?
Oct 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
It’s a shame this still happens. I have to put up with it on a daily basis, although changing the image can provide a little entertainment (and free advertising). I’ve always found an email to the site/forum owner or comment on offending post gets about a 50% success rate if that helps. Although it is time consuming at least it is unlikely to be repeated by that person.
Oct 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I do so enjoy a little bit of image “tinkering” now and again. Maybe I’ll put a few more examples together on a web page sometime (the Sky TV Porn channel website was a particular favourite of mine).
The original image was the yellow cone in the puddle about 2/3rds of the way down on http://www.jamessalter.me.uk/personal/tripreports/2007/thorpe_opening/
Oct 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
*cough* goatse */cough*
You know you want to…
Oct 22nd, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Acording to your HTTP response headers your using apache (Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)) So why don’t you just use a .htaccess file to change the image sent to any requests for images on your site that have a referer and that referer does not equal your site. That way all your images will be blocked from people hotlinking them who show their refferer. If you add a note saying that any hotlinking images will be replace with some nasty image then people probably wont hotlink incase anyone visits their site who has refferers enabled.
Jan 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm