Another Word for Nerd

9 Responses to 'Hotlinkers DIe!'

1. Wez Furlong Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 5:44 am

   While I appreciate that you don’t like hotlinking, don’t you think that that image is a little strong?

   And why do you even want to keep that awful image stored on your server anyway?

   karma– for mrbill, IMO.

2. Paul Tomblin Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 7:44 am

   As you probably know, I’ve dealt with hotlinkers by redirecting them to http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/leech.png
   which is nicely offensive, screws up their web site when the image they are leeching is a background, and also quite small.

   But when I discussed this in my blog, somebody put in the comments a remark about redirecting to t*bg*rl, and now I see hits on my images from people searching google for that image.

3. mrbill Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 8:41 am

   Wez, if people decide to steal my bandwidth by hotlinking large desktop background images, they deserve what they get.

   I could have put something even worse up, but chose not to.

4. &rw Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 9:35 am

   I usually just redirect to the original goatse.cx or t*bgirl. Screws everything up enough, doesn’t hit on my bandwidth (even if I don’t have to care about that), and doesn’t rob the original “artists” of their hits.

   cheers,
   &rw

5. Tony Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 10:32 am

   My response is the ever NWS:
   http://nnin.net/images/naked_nana/bandwidth_thieves_suck.jpg

   Seems to work quite well.

6. Bill Bradford Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 1:08 pm

   here’s a list of the morons getting Pain2.jpg express-delivered today.

7. rone Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

   It seems rather counterproductive to punish hotlinkers, who were probably linking to a small file, to a 128kB image.

8. mrbill Says:
   January 24th, 2006 at 10:06 pm

   Rone, its all about the concept. I’m not *that* concerned about the bandwidth.

   Besides, once they see what their fancy background has become, they quickly change it, eliminating any further bandwidth usage.

9. Marc Says:
   January 26th, 2006 at 2:17 pm

   wow. my eyes actually hurt after that.