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Mon, 13 Sep 2004

Apparently my photos are popular

Yeah. Not only are they popular, but they seem to really resound with the LiveJournal-under-18-years-old crowd. This group (there are several and a few at a couple of other sites) sources the image from my site and use it as the background of their weblogs. I'm going to refrain from issuing my opinion of the content of said weblogs... I will note that they should use the text of those weblogs as a big indicator that there are a lot of kids out there who should be flunking English classes.

Anyhow, I'm kind of flattered that they like it so much. I just wish they weren't causing my bandwidth to go through the roof. It'd be nice if they cited me as the original photographer... but in this wily world, not many seem to really care about that sort of thing.

Sad to say that I'm going to disappoint them all as I rename the file causing lots of 404 mayhem.

Update: I tossed it around and thought it'd be really funny to just switch the image to one that says "j00 sux0r! ha ha!" Those sites look really really funny now. :)

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Comments:

Posted by Jeff Hodges on Tue Sep 14 00:30:48 2004
Which pictures were they using?


Posted by Guido on Tue Sep 14 06:38:30 2004
Yes, and where are those weblogs? I'd really like to see them before they have changed their background again...


Posted by will on Tue Sep 14 10:36:36 2004
I don't really want to post links to their sites or my image here.  No need to give them better page ranking and such and I don't really want to start a "war".

Mostly I just thought it was amusing and wanted to adjust things so that they stop sucking up my bandwidth.


Posted by Mark Hughes on Tue Sep 14 19:34:35 2004
What you want is to do some apache .htaccess work, to stop any more bandwidth thieves without interfering with your own site's operation.


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