Comments on: Moo http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/moo/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: rsynnott http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/moo/#comment-371 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:28:16 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/moo/#comment-371 A while back, someone used a picture of an ICBM test launch from my blog as the background to their forum. I replaced it with a picture of Spitting Image's Maggie Thatcher. It took them a surprisingly long time to remove her. A while back, someone used a picture of an ICBM test launch from my blog as the background to their forum. I replaced it with a picture of Spitting Image’s Maggie Thatcher. It took them a surprisingly long time to remove her.

]]> by: Steven Den Beste http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/moo/#comment-364 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:06:22 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/11/29/moo/#comment-364 I think a lot of them don't honestly know any better. There are people for whom electricity comes from a socket in the wall, and food comes from a grocery store. They don't know any more than that. And for them, pictures come from the web. That's all. They're out there, and you use them, because that's what you do on the web. Considering some of the kinds of pictures I've posted on my site I've gotten hammered that way many, many times, including at least once by Fark (which brought my server to its knees for several hours). But my main bitch has been people on MySpace who put lots of cool pictures in their "about me" page, often including ones hosted on my server. I suppose I could have done some of the kinds of things you did, but my goal is to be so annoying that someone is forced to remove their link to me ASAP. So <a href="http://denbeste.nu/common/myspace.gif" rel="nofollow">this</a> is what my "deterrence" image looks like. Not only is it only 13K, but since it's 2048*2048 it blows the site format for any unsophisticated linker who didn't include width and height fields in their IMG tag. And it's a real eyebomb. It does the trick, nearly always. Image hotlinks to my server don't usually last long. I think a lot of them don’t honestly know any better. There are people for whom electricity comes from a socket in the wall, and food comes from a grocery store. They don’t know any more than that.

And for them, pictures come from the web. That’s all. They’re out there, and you use them, because that’s what you do on the web.

Considering some of the kinds of pictures I’ve posted on my site I’ve gotten hammered that way many, many times, including at least once by Fark (which brought my server to its knees for several hours). But my main bitch has been people on MySpace who put lots of cool pictures in their “about me” page, often including ones hosted on my server.

I suppose I could have done some of the kinds of things you did, but my goal is to be so annoying that someone is forced to remove their link to me ASAP. So this is what my “deterrence” image looks like.

Not only is it only 13K, but since it’s 2048*2048 it blows the site format for any unsophisticated linker who didn’t include width and height fields in their IMG tag. And it’s a real eyebomb. It does the trick, nearly always. Image hotlinks to my server don’t usually last long.

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