Comments on: Pursuading people with Rewrite rules that "hotlinking" is bad is not malicious, it’s just funny

By: Prevent HotLinking with .htaccess - Brajeshwar

Prevent HotLinking with .htaccess - Brajeshwar — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:41:54 +0000

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By: Tales of a Crazy Guy - Hotlinking is Bad

Tales of a Crazy Guy - Hotlinking is Bad — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:59:28 +0000

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By: Mark Penix

Mark Penix — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:50:53 +0000

Am I the only one who knew about hotlinking about 10+ years ago!? Being that I’m 25, yes I knew about it when I was 15.

This gave me a good laugh. Thank you so much. To add to the hilarity was that misinformed post. Hilarious.

By: johno

johno — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:21:43 +0000

Brilliant!
Reporting you to Google and Yahoo–if Google had any sense, they’d reply with words to the effect, “get a $%&’&% life”. They break into your house, then complain when you lock the door. I’m dumbstruck. I’m surprised they didn’t then attempt to hotlink that rather nice red image.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:31:11 +0000

I made a hotlink image to deter a select few people who were linking tons of images from my site. Instead of the image they wanted, they got a bright yellow image with black text that said “I steal bandwidth. I’m also lousy in bed.”

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:36:16 +0000

Hotlinking is probably the single most annoying thing someone can do. Kirsten, love your way of showing who’s ~~boss~~ host. Dish out a little David Hasslehoff.

I woke up one morning to wordpress letting me know that I had a ping from a couple of sites. Turned out one of them was a random german site trying to mirror content (hosting company took care of it before I even saw it).

One thing I can say, spam[mers] suck.

By: John Pastor

John Pastor — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:52:34 +0000

Hey, thanks for the plug!

By: kristin pishdadi

kristin pishdadi — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:17:08 +0000

hi derek! it’s been a while

I was just poking around this guys website.
I’m guessing he is about 12 years old from all of his typos LOL. “do not except cookies”

He really should have checked up on things before “reporting” you to google and yahoo (what would they do about it anyways?). I find it toooo funny that he says your image is obscene, when he has on his website a photo of a chick in a bikini that says SEXYHOT and links to a NSFW site. Doesn’t seem to me that his subscribers (if there are any), would even care about some text on an image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiphey/86327295/in/set-1636808/ =D

By: Christian Mohn

Christian Mohn — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:22:58 +0000

This is too funny, and I’ve been doing the same for quite a while now. I feed hotlinkers a random image, current rotation is goatse, tubgirl and lemonparty. That usually stops it pretty quickly.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:54:13 +0000

Here’s the best part:

“so we reported your site to the authorities”

Um, I guess the Governor of the Internets will be knocking on your door soon, huh? Look out!