mu har har

[ramtops]

after some nifty footwork by perlmonger, scumbags people hotlinking direct to my images will see:

we finally decided Something Must Be Done when the image hits from Myspace et al were reaching five figures a month ...

and also, we needed to do it for a new client site ...

Comments

[etriganuk.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd be ruder, or more explanatory, or something...

"If you see this image then the poster thinks stealing my bandwidth is OK. It's not."

or something.

"You'd not be seeing this if the poster had been bothered to cut and past the image..."

maybe? :)

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I'd much prefer to have something along the lines of "fuck off, you leeching scum", but I'm mindful of the fact that we masquerade as a professional web development company :)

wot no goatse?

[hashbangperl.livejournal.com]

;)

You could always add a random tubgirl every X loads.

Or... the bbc goatse olympic logo - maybe some ascii art of a well known site..

..childish I know.. the image you have there is pretty good... or you could promote a suitably liberal cause : gay rights, stop the war, whatever you fancy :)

Re: wot no goatse?

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

that's a good idea (no, *not* the goatse ...) perhaps I'll rotate it for my favourite causes.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I'm not making excuses for anyone, but I think it's fair to say that the technical competence of the average MySpace user is such that they probably aren't doing it on purpose. Good solution, though.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

> on purpose
I'm sure they're not - they're not bright enough to understand, by and large.

[andrewwilde.livejournal.com]

Hi! Met you yesterday at purple_peril's do - mind if I friend you? Ta.

As for the hotlinking image, clever... I like... :o)

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

don't mind at all - I rarely say anything interesting, mind ...