Just been looking at referer logs again... I've noticed that some bandwidth thieving gypsy had stolen one of my sunset photos for use as a background on one of his webpages. He'd used the big image (350k) and linked directly to my server. So, had therefore wasted about 75Mb of my bandwidth.
What an arsehole!
I've now made my referer specific image changing device to allow me to put whatever I want on people's sites should they be bastard like.
If you've visited the guy's site you'll realised you can't read much of the text. Mainly because his background has gone black... same colour as his text... you might be able to read the odd word through the liberal splashings of "April Fool" in white mind. Wonder how long it'll be until he puts it back... and comments about it on my blog.
No doubt he'll make me out the be the bad guy. Wouldn't have minded so much (ok I would... he can host it on his own server!) but he's stolen the image and not even credited me as the photographer. The big cheeky shit.
[ip hidden] - - [01/Apr/2005:20:33:05 +0100] "GET /pics/20040518/sunsetb.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 37853 "http://editprofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.interests&Mytoken=20050401113253" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" 1 www.bloged.co.uk
If you can read URLs and understand the log format... guess what this was? :-)
[Ah I'll tell you anyway... 'cause I know the awkward ones amongst you will only MSN and ask me... "editprofile.myspace.com" suggests that the guy has been looking at the edit profile page of his blog thingy.
As it's the last entry in my log requesting the image, it would suggest that his visit was to remove the image from his page... I think that might be the last request I get from him... :-) Heh.]