Bandwidth thieves and Wigflip
Submitted by badmatty on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 15:05
Wigflip has some great little animated GIF tools. You can make marquees and other neat little GIF files.
Today I had a need for the SignBot that they have. You see there is a guy who either doesn't know anything about web design and therefore is ignorant to the fact that he is stealing or knows that he is stealing and doesn't care. He must have liked my Drudge Report logo I made and host because when I was checking my records of my site today, I noticed that not all was legit. This person was leaching my image and bandwidth.
I have had this happen in the past. This time I was feeling a little mischievous. At first I was going to swap out the image with something very obscene. I thought better of that...I mean the guy could go and show his work off to his grandmother or something. Instead, I opted for something just as fun, but a little more subtle.
I hope that the other webmasters he is stealing from are as nice as I.
WebWeaver has a nice explanation of hotlinking and leaching.
Today I had a need for the SignBot that they have. You see there is a guy who either doesn't know anything about web design and therefore is ignorant to the fact that he is stealing or knows that he is stealing and doesn't care. He must have liked my Drudge Report logo I made and host because when I was checking my records of my site today, I noticed that not all was legit. This person was leaching my image and bandwidth.
I have had this happen in the past. This time I was feeling a little mischievous. At first I was going to swap out the image with something very obscene. I thought better of that...I mean the guy could go and show his work off to his grandmother or something. Instead, I opted for something just as fun, but a little more subtle.
I hope that the other webmasters he is stealing from are as nice as I.
WebWeaver has a nice explanation of hotlinking and leaching.
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