Bandwidth thieves

[annuin]

So PreZ sent me the link to some person's diaryland journal this afternoon. Not only did this person rip off several of the menu images from goth.net, they didn't even bother to host them on their own webspace. Not that that really makes it much better, as it's still copyright infringement, but stealing bandwidth just adds insult to injury.

So I've decided to swap the images out with something else. Clicky-clicky.

I'm following it up with a cease and desist email to the site host. They generally don't look too kindly on that sort of thing, and accounts can and do get pulled over it.

I'm also sending an email off to another person whose bandwidth and images she's stealing. Apparantly that copyright on his/her site didn't stop this girl from direct linking to his paintings either and using them as part of her layout.

Comments

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well, nothing is fool proof... you can remove the IE image toolbar option and add no-right-click, but looking at the source code will get you past that.

A basic scrambling of the html code so that it's unreadable to regular humans obviously wouldn't stop the most determined people either, but then it will stop the more clueless people out there, as no-right-click also does. And often they're the ones trying to rip your shit off.

PreZ also says there are ways to rig a cgi script so that you can get an image to load without revealing the image path, that also would discourage the average person.

No I'd not be able to stop it, but I can sure as hell try to make it hard for the average schmuck who's trying to steal images or direct link.