Archive for May, 2008

Transclusioning Images without permission is bad, mmmkay?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Why do people think that it is ok to steal my bandwidth to host images for them? I guess this internet thing must be free.

Another dork thought it was a good idea to use an image off my website in their forum profile. http://forum.dzmusique.com/discussion-generale/se-separer-a-cuase-du-voile-t1298.75.html

Not only that, but it happened to be a 1280×1360px image that was being sized down to 100×100 by the forum, so each page hit was 350kb of data off my server. Thanks dude, how about instead you get a 680byte .gif called “i-suck-balls.gif”

i suck balls

For those interested, the following code block is responsible for this. Thanks apache and mod_rewrite:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} habboxforum\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} forum\.dzmusique\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/i-suck-balls.gif [NC]
ReWriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png|jpeg)$ http://www.ub3rgeek.net/images/i-suc
k-balls.gif [L]