Thou Shalt Not Steal
Published by Allison May 23rd, 2006 in Annoy Me, AdminSomeone’s been stealing my bandwidth, grrr!
Maya’s Meanderings is down, and I’m not sure how long it will take for it to come back up. My host will be available later today, and will help me address the issues then. It would appear that someone with a busy website *really* likes my background images — images that I CREATED.
Get a camera. Buy some fabric. Make your own damned backgrounds, people. At the very least, please have the decency to right-click and save the file to your own server instead of linking to mine! Harumph.
Oddly enough, MM lists as running at 71% of my monthly bandwidth allowance, yet it’s down. FTLOG shows as hitting 135%, but it’s still up. What the…?
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It’s working, Alli. Sorry that someone with good taste and bad non-working knowledge of the web has hit your site.
Whew, I can *comment* again! I didn’t know how to do that what with the “sign-in” requirements you had going there for awhile.
I noticed that Maya’s site is still down.
That sucks. I miss the cutey-pie goodness.
Yeah, and now I’m not quite sure what the problem is. This site is now showing at over 150% of bandwidth, yet it’s up. The host tweaked my allowances for mayaleigh, and now it’s showing at 67%, but down. What the…?
Plus, I’ve set up the hotlink protection, so in theory, people shouldn’t be able to piggyback off my background images now. I don’t get it.
You could replace the pictures that are being hotlinked with theft notices…or worse, really nasty porn that even hurts your own eyes to look at. Think the goatsex guy or tubgirl (you can google and find those if you’re not familiar with them, but don’t do it in front of your kid - and don’t blame me for the permanent mental scarring). Leave the location of the files that are being hijacked the same after you replace the pics with the new images, but change the location of the correct pics and point your blog image tags to the new location. That way you’re not getting the changed images on your site, but they’re getting them on theirs.
This guy had a problem with bandwidth theft a few times, I would bet he’d be willing to provide you with the text of the image he posted (it was pretty funny, and clean) or maybe even with a copy of the image he used.