Mr. Wong.. bandwidth theft

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2003-09-03 11:45am

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.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-09-03 11:59am

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!

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-03 12:05pm

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.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-09-03 12:15pm

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

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-09-03 12:25pm

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.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-09-03 01:41pm

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?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-03 02:08pm

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?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-09-03 02:09pm

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.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-09-03 02:20pm

Nightmare, have you PMed Mike? It'll probably work better to get his attention.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-09-03 02:23pm

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...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-03 02:32pm

Coffee help reboot your system.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2003-09-04 12:31am

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.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-09-04 01:25am

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.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-09-04 01:41am

Wow, direct posting kills bandwidth?!? Ah crap...

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-09-04 03:22am

Vorlon1701 wrote:Wow, direct posting kills bandwidth?!? Ah crap...

It definitaty(sp) does after the internet bill arrives in the mailbox.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-09-04 04:15pm

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.

Who let our secret out!?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-09-04 04:51pm

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".

Sorry bout that.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-09-04 05:11pm

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.

Who let our secret out!?

YOU CAN DO THAT?!?