So I was doing some spelunking through my server logs this morning. Turns out half of MySpace is hotlinking to a picture of Speedo Guy from this post last summer. As an aside, there are some really fugly pages where people (either the luser or somebody on their message board) are hotlinking to it or to my Project Beeramid pic. It's like every luser on MySpace said 'give me one of every webtoy you got,' without any consideration as to how it would look when it was done.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this yet. It's not like they're stealing a lot of my bandwidth - most of those MySpace pages hit me about once a day, if that - but still. I think for now I'll just update that picture with my URL, so they can know where it came from (and maybe swing by and increase my readership - yeah, I'm a whore that way).
If it keeps getting worse, I can always do something like this or this.
Posted by Chris at July 5, 2006 07:59 PMchris, get the free advertising for a bit, then pull the switcheroo!
the switcheroo is soooooo lovely, especially when you have a really choice pic to switch with the hotlinked item.
Posted by: mlah at July 5, 2006 10:29 PM