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October 28, 2005
Bandwidth Thief
All bandwidth thieves must die. Look. It's not that hard. You don't "hot link" images from someone else's site into your own site. Especially if it's original, copyrighted images, like a broad-tailed hummingbird I shot on my mountain lilacs in May of this year. So, you can make a copy of it, and put it on your site, and link back to me and say "thanks to Peenie Wallie for this photo", but you can't use my bandwith to host my photograph on your website. That's called bandwidth theft. Plus, you leave the door open for me to change the picture, which will immediately appear on your site.
Update - 11/1/05: Looks like my bandwidth thief caught on, and removed the image. The sad thing is that, I don't mind people using my images. I take them for others to enjoy. All I ask is that they give credit for the image, and a link to my web site, and they can use my images. It's not a big deal. But please don't hotlink my images. That's just plain rude.
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on October 28, 2005 at 08:17 PM
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interesting
Posted by: sarah on October 29, 2005 at 08:20 AM
"Stop and Prevent Hotlink Bandwidth Theft, Hotlinking and File Leeching"
Posted by: UB on October 29, 2005 at 09:36 AM
"Prevent Hot Linking - Tutorials"
Posted by: UB on October 29, 2005 at 09:54 AM
Nice :D
JoeSherlock had the Daily Kos do the same thing to him, here was his response:
http://www.joesherlock.com/Kos.html
Kos didn't take it down for quite a while, I guess he didn't notice...and neither has your thief.
Posted by: Alice H on November 01, 2005 at 10:22 AM