I have replaced one of my favorite images of that handsome devil David Lee Roth, which has been hotlinked by a less-scrupulous blogger, with that of the perennial favorite, goatse. BEHOLD the power of technorati, and also the power of twelveness.
I would have politely asked him to save the image to Blogger’s server, but he doesn’t take anon comments. Oh wells.This is why I usually name my images some gibberish thing that won’t come up on goog images.
What is hotlinking?
Here is a boring article on wikipedia about hotlinking. Moar hotlinks. And even moar on grimthing.
WARNING: Goatse image after jump.
cleek for fulls
I guess it’s just one of those days.
hehe
That’s cool if you like doing that, but you know I can probably get Ben to install some server rules to prevent hotlinking if you like. It’s not that hard.
Of course I like doing this! It’s what I do.
I can never eat watermelon again, after seeing that.
Okay, so, I, Dumbass. Yep, I am pretty new to blogging and I think I’ve been hotlinking. I had to look it up. Oops! I didn’t realize people paid for bandwidth. I guess I get so few visitors on my mommy blog on my free blogspot account, that I didn’t realize others had to pay. I did always link back though.
Oh, crap. I should go back to look at all my photos to make sure someone didn’t replace them with assholes. That pic, by the way, was pretty vile. Almost as vile as the pic I put of the foot fetish woman stepping in goo-ey poo. Oh wait, that was just a link. Whew! No hotlinking there.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
what in the fuck are you talking about???
i don’t even know how to regular link
moreless link it cuz I’m hot…
you guys are good….
that picture bothers me with it’s bright stretched/shiny redness. it looks like it might burst.
I didn’t think you could top the Puppy Fucking for your comment trolls, but you’ve done it!
I accidentally hotlinked an image the other day. I was in the process of transferring it through different computers and linking for five minutes until i got on the next one seemed like a good idea. But I felt like a jerk/idiot the whole time.
Eh, it’s not the end of the world. I just felt cantankerous yesterday. I know, totally out of character for me.
I’m totally with SJ on this one. As long as it doesn’t kill your bandwidth, fucking with the hotlinker by changing the pic is amusing as hell.
yargh. that was frightening. that image somehow got singed onto my mind’s eye. holding you accountable. expect a subpoena in the mail.
The story about the guy who got tired of a MySpace Background / HTML content site stealing his art and jacking his bandwidth comes to mind.
He tried reasoning with the dickhead, and when that failed, he replaced all the hotlinked images with GOATSE.
He GOATSED MySpace!
That was full of win.
The (virtual, ALL CAPS!!!) screams of horror from around the globe must have been amazing to behold.
A few months ago, there were supposedly still profiles with the tiled GOATSE images.