Well, I’ve gone and done it… I’ve eliminated a stack of folks who were indulging in image swiping.
I’ve mentioned it before. Basically, I don’t have a problem with people using the images I post here, so long as they give credit and don’t steal bandwidth. Unfortunately, some folks do neither. And the biggest offenders have been the folks over at myspace.com. To the tune of close to 30,000 hits from uncredited links this week.
That’s right. Thirty thousand. In seven days.
Even at less than 32k an image, that’s close to a gigabyte of stolen bandwidth so far this month. I just can’t afford to be a free image host for these guys.
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