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Spike, you totally rock!!!!!
Posted by scratch chickie at July 4, 2004 07:18 PM
4.226.192.181
That's just nice...
So, uh... did he stop?
Posted by spookable at July 4, 2004 09:29 PM
64.12.116.146
This is also why Spike kicks ass!
Posted by Rich at July 4, 2004 09:42 PM
141.151.92.134
Because gnomes do not leave bandwidth under your pillow at night.
Posted by Lisa Jonte at July 4, 2004 10:21 PM
69.42.3.13
ALL SHALL FEAR BEECOCK
Posted by Wagner at July 4, 2004 11:07 PM
24.28.87.101
GET OUT OF MY BRAIN, CHRISTIAN. I was talking about beecock the whole time Charlie was dealing with this foolishness.
I still say she was far too lenient on the guy who ignored her polite request to stop leeching in his sig. That dude was begging for huge.jpg.
Posted by Matt at July 4, 2004 11:16 PM
68.20.209.98
Spooks: That was just one guy, really. More than one person had decided to make that banner ad their sig, and the bandwidth load was heavy enough that it was nearly %10 of my total bandwidth transfer for a day last week. (One of the leechers was at the Gaia Online Forums. VERY high traffic.) And that is seriously just goddamn rude.
I can think of three domains off the top of my head right now that do free hosting for no reason at all. There's no excuse to be buggering me.
Posted by spike at July 4, 2004 11:28 PM
68.20.209.98
Some people at Gaia have a nasty habit of doing things like that, unfortunately. :( And if i were you, I'd take a quick peek around their artforum to make sure that nobody's on there passing around your stuff and claiiming that it's theirs, if you know what I mean. Most of the people there are nice, but there are theives from time to time.
If you have hotlink protection with your hosting plan, turn it on...it saves a lot of problems.
Posted by London at July 5, 2004 01:55 AM
68.74.120.19
Yes, 10% is about... 10% too much to be going towards hosting some chump's avatar. I suggest getting an UN resolution...
Posted by spookable at July 5, 2004 10:10 AM
205.188.116.147
Yay I'm famous! Well not so much, but yeah...
I'll apologize, my limited understanding of bandwidth and "leeching" keeps from any real alarms going off in my head when I see something. I've been using the banner for several months now and to be honest completely forgot where it was hosted from. I've been gone for the past four days which would probably explain why I haven't changed my signature until now.
But to be entirerly honest, I receieved absolutely no email.
Posted by Rail at July 5, 2004 12:30 PM
198.53.236.219
Then consider yourself educated and spread the word.
Here's how to not "forget" where you find things you've direct-linked: right-click (or the Mac equivalent) on whatever you've linked to, then click "Properties", and viola', your memory is refreshed.
Host images on a server YOU pay for, from now on.
Now you are out of excuses. Go forth and leech no more.
Posted by Lea at July 5, 2004 01:32 PM
68.203.203.122
The image is hosted on a different server.
Posted by Rail at July 5, 2004 02:47 PM
198.53.236.219
If Rail's using Hotmail, then I can understand why he didn't get any email. Hotmail is to email what Uwe Boll is to moviemaking.
STILL NO FUCKING EXCUSE. ALL SHALL FEAR BEECOCK.
Posted by Wagner at July 5, 2004 05:04 PM
24.28.87.101
Beecock?
Totally off the subject, a friend of mine posted some of her artwork on Gaia and they told her that she stole it (from herself!) and deleted it!
Ahhh, ignorance is bliss, but it rarely holds up in court.
Posted by scratch chickie at July 5, 2004 06:48 PM
4.226.99.179
scratch: You don't wanna know. Trust me.
And actually, to the best of my knowldege, my artwork's never been stolen. I think it's a combination of unpopular subject matter, unenviable stylistic eccentricities, and a lack of superwide exposure to the sort of people who DO the stealing (no accounts on Elfwood or Deviant Art, especially). Even if the impossible were to happen, I can't imagine being anything other than incredibly amused. And of course, I'd link you guys in a minute, if you promised not to go crazy on the guy. We could all use the laugh.
Posted by spike at July 6, 2004 06:38 AM
68.20.209.98
But going crazy is where all the fun is at! What's the point in showing us an idiot if we can't point and laugh?
Posted by Rich at July 6, 2004 11:06 PM
141.151.92.134
Oh, I'd be all for pointing and laughing. Fuck, I'd lead the charge. but what weirds me out is the overzealousness with which some people choose harangue plagiarists. I could see it if the guy was printing out posters of your work and selling them on a streetcorner, but some approval-hungry fifteen-year-old posting a picture of Drimmer to a tiny, anonymous messageboard and claiming he drew it isn't hurting anyone, including me. It's not a crime; it's just hilariously pathetic. I'd enjoy this sorta thing like I'd enjoy watching a three-legged kitten chase a jingle ball. It sucks that the kitten has three legs, but haw haw, look at it go!
Posted by spike at July 6, 2004 11:40 PM
68.20.209.98
Ah, that makes sense. We can point and laugh, but no poking with sharp sticks.
*puts the sharp sticks away for some other time*
Posted by Rich at July 7, 2004 01:48 AM
141.151.92.134
The image is hosted on a different server.
Posted by java at March 15, 2006 01:45 AM
212.100.250.207
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