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Mr. Wong.. bandwidth theft

Posted: 2003-09-03 11:45am
by nightmare
I spotted someone (I have no idea who the guy is) using a picture by direct linking from one of your "essay" pages, more specifically the one about planet busters.

It only happened once, and I gave him a warning about it, so I consider that enough done on his part. But I thought you may wish to know about it and lock the page's images so that they can't be easily used; even if the copyright maintains wholly with the movie producers, he was nonetheless stealing your bandwidth.

Posted: 2003-09-03 11:59am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Thanks for informing us of the trouble.

EDIT: Removed the link and the N00b greeting. Agh I need to lay off posting right after I wake up!

Posted: 2003-09-03 12:05pm
by Montcalm
He`s been here too long to recieve the newbie greeting. :?

BTW if everyone click on the link they`ll exceed my bandwidth at warp speed.

Posted: 2003-09-03 12:15pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Montcalm wrote:He`s been here too long to recieve the newbie greeting. :?

BTW if everyone click on the link they`ll exceed my bandwidth at warp speed.
Fixed. Sorry about that...

Note to self: Sleepyheaded posting != Good Idea

Posted: 2003-09-03 12:25pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Mr. Wong, shall I utilise the phone killer? I like sending 500,000V down the phoneline to fry the guy at the other end. Damn bandwidth stealers.

Posted: 2003-09-03 01:41pm
by Zoink
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mr. Wong, shall I utilise the phone killer? I like sending 500,000V down the phoneline to fry the guy at the other end. Damn bandwidth stealers.
Isn't that the anti-anti-hacker emergency switch? You figure you're being traced so you plug your AC outlet into the phone jack?

Posted: 2003-09-03 02:08pm
by Montcalm
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Montcalm wrote:He`s been here too long to recieve the newbie greeting. :?

BTW if everyone click on the link they`ll exceed my bandwidth at warp speed.
Fixed. Sorry about that...

Note to self: Sleepyheaded posting != Good Idea
No prob Einy BTW are you insomniac or did you stay up really late?

Posted: 2003-09-03 02:09pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Zoink wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mr. Wong, shall I utilise the phone killer? I like sending 500,000V down the phoneline to fry the guy at the other end. Damn bandwidth stealers.
Isn't that the anti-anti-hacker emergency switch? You figure you're being traced so you plug your AC outlet into the phone jack?
Nah, that's not it. You plug the phone jack into a German scheisse porn film station and listen for the screams of burnt eyes and ears.

Posted: 2003-09-03 02:20pm
by Stormbringer
Nightmare, have you PMed Mike? It'll probably work better to get his attention.

Posted: 2003-09-03 02:23pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Montcalm wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Montcalm wrote:He`s been here too long to recieve the newbie greeting. :?

BTW if everyone click on the link they`ll exceed my bandwidth at warp speed.
Fixed. Sorry about that...

Note to self: Sleepyheaded posting != Good Idea
No prob Einy BTW are you insomniac or did you stay up really late?
No, I had *just* woken up. I wasn't thinking with all my CPUs...

Posted: 2003-09-03 02:32pm
by Montcalm
Coffee help reboot your system. :D

Posted: 2003-09-04 12:31am
by nightmare
Stormbringer wrote:Nightmare, have you PMed Mike? It'll probably work better to get his attention.
I thought of that after posting this. I blame sleep depravation.. I'll PM him now.

Posted: 2003-09-04 01:25am
by Darth Wong
Yes, perhaps I'll have to add a rewriterule on my site to prevent such chicanery in future. At least it's just a JPEG, not like Darkstar linking to big multi-megabyte AVI files on my site.

Posted: 2003-09-04 01:41am
by Xenophobe3691
Wow, direct posting kills bandwidth?!? Ah crap...

Posted: 2003-09-04 03:22am
by Rubberanvil
Vorlon1701 wrote:Wow, direct posting kills bandwidth?!? Ah crap...
It definitaty(sp) does after the internet bill arrives in the mailbox.

Posted: 2003-09-04 04:15pm
by David
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mr. Wong, shall I utilise the phone killer? I like sending 500,000V down the phoneline to fry the guy at the other end. Damn bandwidth stealers.

:shock: Who let our secret out!?

Posted: 2003-09-04 04:51pm
by Rye
Oh yeah, i kinda nicked bandwidth by using the image on the first page of your creationism site for a question of "is this in the image of god or a monkey". :oops:

Sorry bout that.

Posted: 2003-09-04 05:11pm
by Xenophobe3691
David wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mr. Wong, shall I utilise the phone killer? I like sending 500,000V down the phoneline to fry the guy at the other end. Damn bandwidth stealers.

:shock: Who let our secret out!?
YOU CAN DO THAT?!?