don't link to my photos
Posted on Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The first rule of web design should be that you don't link to other people's photos. You do what every honest, photo-stealing person on the net does ... you right click on them, and save them to your own server. This evening I was checking the server stats of Some Crazy Garbage.com, and I found that http://www.jappy.de/user/esha/ms was linking to one of my photos. Now this isn't a HUGE deal, because they're the only ones that I can easily find right now ... but it's still annoying. After all, I pay for my server space and when http://www.jappy.de/user/esha/ms links to one of my photos, it goes against my monthly transfer limit.
Now the photo they *were* linking to is a photo that I posted way back in February of 2006, about Bollywood remaking Fight Club. Http://www.jappy.de/user/esha/ms has posted a big string of rudely linked photos on the site, under the heading of "bollywood the best."
So what action should I take? I considered just deleting the photo. It's an old post, and I've cleaned old images off my server space before. I even have old blog posts that are blank now, because I've deleted the old images. It's not a big deal. But, the evil side of me decided to have a little fun with this. After all, the rude poster at http://www.jappy.de/user/esha/ms has given me free reign to post anything I want on their site. I first considered a single frame from the original (American) version of Fight Club. You might know what I'm talking about. [No, I didn't just link to the image, I linked to some criticism of the movie. The frame is mentioned in paragraph six.]
So I've settled with this:
After all, I'm not a HORRIBLE person. On a scale of one to ten, I'm like a seven. Oh, did you notice that I replaced the word "rectum" with "Bollywood?" You did? Oh, okay. I was just checking.
Think anyone will even notice that I've replaced the image over at http://www.jappy.de/user/esha/ms? I guess that only time will tell.
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