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Please Don’t Steal My Content or Bandwidth
The internet isn’t new. There is a certain etiquette that most people should be aware of by this stage of the game. One thing not to do is to hot-link to content on another person’s site.
Why shouldn’t you do this?
First because it’s not your stuff. It’s like borrowing someone’s car without telling them. Even if they’re a good friend, they probably won’t find that the coolest thing ever.
Second because you’re effectively stealing that person’s bandwidth. You’re making their server do all the work for your page. That’s just not cool either.
I’ve been paying more attention to my server logs than I was before and noticed someone pointing to a file that didn’t exist anymore due to the site redesign. Knowing a bit about mod_rewrite, I threw up a little rule to display a complete different image than the one that they were expecting. If you’re curious what the result is, have a look at http://klareto.blogspot.com/. As of the time of this post, it’s worth a quick laugh.
So please… don’t steal my stuff.
- 2009/02/23 - MikeBrum.com -- Steve, Send The Phone Spiders!
Hi, “Mike”.
I’m Albert Claret, the guy who owns the blog you mentioned in this post (http://klareto.blogspot.com). Was far from my intentions to “steal” that tiny red-star image. I just picked it up from Google and didn’t worry about its origin. It’s okay, it wasn’t a good action.
Maybe yours have not been either, though. You haven’t thought about people who enter my blog (which luckily is not so much people). Maybe an email would have been a nicer way to get your justice.
Anyway, I’ve laughed a lot with the joke. Even we the thiefs have a good humor sense.
See you,
Albert
On the contrary, I did think about the people who would have entered your blog. I also though, “it’d be totally awesome if the people who came to this blog saw some crazy shemale p0rn up and down this page”.
And I was totally right!
In all seriousness, I did go to your page to send you a message but I’m afflicted with a horrible case of only speaking English, so I resorted to making myself laugh at the expense of others after giving up on finding any contact info.
Anyhow – thanks for the comment and good sense of humor. I’ll go ahead and remove that redirect rule now :)