So I’ve probably just ruined the day of a couple dozen angsty teens.
Let me explain.
I was going through the server logs and noticed a whole bunch of bandwidth was being used by one of my old images. It seems a lot of people were linking to it directly, using it as a background for their own web pages.
So I changed things a bit…
The old image has been renamed, and the old article on my site has been updated to link to it. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until it gets found again, and linked to, and I don’t have a problem with that, normally. I don’t mind people using my images, so long as I get credited. Thus the whole Creative Commons License over on the left-side navigation bar.
But none of the sites I saw had any kind of attribution. And linking the way they did just adds to the server load here.
On the other hand, it makes it pretty trivial to replace the image they had been using with this one:
