Stan’s Obligatory Blog

12/21/2005

Have I mentioned lately that I hate people who hotlink my photos?

Filed under: — stan @ 1:55 pm

I was reading Digg today at lunch, and they had an article about another method of stopping bandwidth theft by hotlinking:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/bandwidththeft.shtml

So I went and implemented this in my blog photos and also in my photo albums. Take that, myspace.com.

Here are the most popular photos with the hotlinkers:

http://1134.org/blog/images2005/IMG_0667a.jpg
http://1134.org/gallery/albums/random/ace.sized.jpg
http://1134.org/blog/images2005/IMG_0453a.jpg

All together, these three photos account for 2.6% of my total bandwidth for the month. Hmm. Maybe this isn’t as big a deal as I thought. Still, it’s annoying.

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