Die leechers die.
Once again, some douchebags decided that hotlinking images from other servers, efficiently leeching bandwidth/data transfer is cool. Funny how the world never seems to run out of these people. Last year there were a few turkeys who did the same with my dancing hippo video clip and I ended up exceeding my allocated bandwidth by alot. I was lucky I didn’t have to pay for the excess or I’ll be surviving solely on dust for months.
List of damned thieves:
- http://www.friendster.com/5464859
- http://www.friendster.com/8606480
- http://www.friendster.com/annajoy
- http://www.friendster.com/12004247
- http://www.xanga.com/lovesmilegirl
- http://www.friendster.com/23934825
- http://www.friendster.com/27365651
- http://www.friendster.com/8671160
http://rigo888881.hi5.com
These people had simply attached the URL of my image into their CSS as their background for their profile pages, no thanks to the convenience made possible by the tool EditFriendster provides.
Problem solved
Now call me ruthless, I don’t care if they knew hotlinking is a bad netiquette or not. The fact remains that they are indeed thieves leeching off me and I have the rights to do anything in my power to defend my loss of services. Okay, enough of guilt-alleviating self-consolation(I know I’m still a bad ass), let’s get down to business. Thanks to a post on Digg I had this sudden revelation about how I could avenge myself. Big time.
Okay maybe not, I’ll go mild this time. My original idea was a gay porn image(NSFW: you’ve been warned!) in place of the original stolen one. Now just imagine the look on the visitors’ faces when they chance upon these users’ profile pages tiled with such beautiful image, would you? Hell, just think of yours when you see one.
But whatever, guilty conscience strikes so I’ll just put up a image that reads “I SUCK FOR STEALING BANDWIDTH OFF DRACO.DEVSYNC.NET!1!1!!” instead. Still bad ass, but better than the resort I mentioned earlier for sure. :-) Now I feel benevolent. Anyway, if somehow they still don’t get the hint, I’ll consider them warned and proceed with step 2 — the mentioned method.
The replaced image!1!Let’s hope there won’t be an unwanted repercussion though.