Leechers beware
So a user by the name of “Sylar” on the narutofan.com forums apparently thought it would be “cool” to hotlink directly to a 1Mb animated GIF on toadking.com. Normally, I would let it slide, but that file was 1Mb in size, and was getting 10000+ views, which ads up to over 10Gb of bandwidth a week. So what if I have over two terabytes of bandwidth from my host? This “Sylar” needed to be taught a lesson.
I thought about Goatse-ing him, but that seemed too boring and unoriginal. As of now, I decided on a 65535×65535 GIF image to replace the one he was linking to. I plan on replacing that with something more offensive later on.
The moral of this post; don’t leech of me.
on 18 Apr 2007 at 9:30 pm 1.Anonymouse said …
I would never leech of you, darling.
on 12 May 2007 at 6:32 pm 2.A concerned citizen. said …
I’m pretty sure he just made a mistake and didn’t know about imageshack or that he was doing anything wrong.
NOTE FROM TOAD KING: Well, it seems he is now, so I guess all is well.
on 02 Jun 2007 at 7:50 pm 3.Anonymous said …
Mmmmm…maybe I should kill wget now.
on 06 Jun 2007 at 12:41 pm 4.Nathan Jolly said …
Ah, newbies never learn and when they do, there’s an endless supply to replace them.
I would only condone a Goatse if the guy was a punk about it. But it’s a fun idea.
ImageShack is cool but it’s gotten unstable with me. I’ve been using PhotoBucket. It’s not as fast but it remembers my pictures, so I don’t have to keep a list of links or anything. And you can email them pictures if uploading acts up. Not spamming for them but that’s what works for me.
I came to your image directory first, the 6×9=42 thing. I found it looking for a Firefox extension. Maybe you could write a small script that lets the visitor “get code”, which links to the transload feature on ImageShack somehow, gives them ImageShack links. If it were possible, I don’t know. But it might help prevent leeching.
on 16 Jul 2007 at 2:01 pm 5.Blood Vex said …
He deserves it; He’s a Naruto fan.