Got it! Many thanks.
I’ll make sure i have some porn standing by for deployment, although i will be nice enough to warn them first that they should stop hogging my bandwidth.
Course I do. But Apache isn’t GPLed. And the GPL only requires releasing code when you distribute the derived work.
But my pr0n-grabbing patch is out there somewhere. I can’t find it though. Anyway, here’s a much cooler one I did a while ago for Apache 2.0.
Elmwood, that is hilarious. I had something similar happen to me. The guy on the forum was quite outraged at first (I had replaced the photo he stole with a graphic that said he was a bandwidth thief). He was puzzled by what had happened to his cute little avatar and cried, “But I’m not a theif!” until someone else on the board set him straight.
Oh, I totally agree. I am quite annoyed by bandwidth thieves—especially when my websites have BIG NOTICES saying that I don’t want people to use my graphics. One site in particular has text in bold lettering telling people to not leech my bandwidth. And yet they do it anyway. I feel no sympathy if they get embarrassed. However, as pissed as I get by these leeches, I wouldn’t replace the pictures with “maximum offensiveness” porn pictures. Usually a graphic declaring that they are a big stinking thief (or the NAMBLA graphic, saying that they molest children and steal graphics) is good enough.
One time I had a church site leech my graphics. I wrote to the webmaster and asked for them to be removed. No reply back, no apology, but one of the graphics was removed. Just one. Then I wrote to the email address of the pastor of the church, explaining what bandwidth theft was, explaining how it is leeching my resources and explaining how I’d already asked for the graphics to be removed and the webmaster had not complied. I got a very polite email back from the pastor saying that it “would be taken care of immediately” and it definitely was!
More stories from the frontling of the bandwidth wars are available on Cockeyed.com.
elmwood has more fun with bandwidth thieves.
Sure, the little graphics they were hotlinking to were only a few hundred bytes, as opposed to the 14K image it gor replaced with. Still, though … I like the results.
elmwood, that’s a thing of beauty.
One time I replaced a stolen graphic (I think it was on someone’s blog—blog users are big bandwidth hogs) with one that was invisible and really, really, really long. Like one pixel high by 2500 pixels wide. So it totally screwed up their table and everyone had to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll sideways on the page. And yet the graphic was transparent so if the blog owner was clueless (as I think he or she was), then they wouldn’t know how to fix it so easily.
Another time a blog owner linked to one of my drawings and claimed that their “cousin in Budapest” did the drawing and that this cousin was famous and all that. I never understood the reasoning behind that bit of thievery. I can’t believe for a second that they mistook my artwork for their cousin’s. I have no clue what was going on there. Anyway, I replaced the “cousin’s” drawing with a big graphic that said that basically this person was a bandwidth-stealing moron and I wasn’t their cousin and what the hell?
When this happens in an ebay auction, I replaced the stolen graphic with a notice that the first 10 bidders will receive a 25% rebate on their bid, plus free shipping!
Hence your user name, right? That’s a good punishment.