Comments on: hotlinking http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/ Incoherent chatter on issues related to science, computing, and philosophy. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: hypercubed http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-11192 hypercubed Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:26:23 +0000 http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/#comment-11192 In the end I was lucky but at first the only traffic I was getting was people viewing the image on the Microsoft site.  There were eating my traffic but not visiting my site.  DD was very nice to link to my site in the end. <br /> In the end I was lucky but at first the only traffic I was getting was people viewing the image on the Microsoft site.  There were eating my traffic but not visiting my site.  DD was very nice to link to my site in the end.

]]> By: Eric http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-8878 Eric Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:47:05 +0000 http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/#comment-8878 Personally I think you were lucky. You were hotlinked from MSDN which led to many people visiting your site, including myself. Being it was Microsoft, they responded and even apologized for the bandwidth stealing, linking to your site again giving you even more linkage. I had this exact same problem happen to me. Some punk kid who visits lots of gaming forums hotlinked to one of my image on my server to his signature skewing up my statistics and wasting my bandwidth just like you. I sent a message to the forum admins to take down my image but they never responded. So in the end I did a urlrewrite of the image which finally led to the kid removing the image from his signature in one of the forums... 2 more forums to go. :-/ Personally I think you were lucky. You were hotlinked from MSDN which led to many people visiting your site, including myself. Being it was Microsoft, they responded and even apologized for the bandwidth stealing, linking to your site again giving you even more linkage.

I had this exact same problem happen to me. Some punk kid who visits lots of gaming forums hotlinked to one of my image on my server to his signature skewing up my statistics and wasting my bandwidth just like you. I sent a message to the forum admins to take down my image but they never responded. So in the end I did a urlrewrite of the image which finally led to the kid removing the image from his signature in one of the forums… 2 more forums to go. :-/

]]> By: DD http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7853 DD Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:25:56 +0000 http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/#comment-7853 Sorry about the hotlinking!  Didn't realize it would screw you up!  We'll change it and we'll do an apology on the site that links to you in a real way.  Look for an update later today.  We're in the process of shipping & took an unfortunate shortcut that screwed you up.  Sorry again to be rude!  -- Dee Dee Walsh, Microsoft Windows Marketplace Sorry about the hotlinking!  Didn’t realize it would screw you up!  We’ll change it and we’ll do an apology on the site that links to you in a real way.  Look for an update later today.  We’re in the process of shipping & took an unfortunate shortcut that screwed you up.  Sorry again to be rude! 

– Dee Dee Walsh, Microsoft Windows Marketplace

]]> By: Hypercubed Blog » Blog Archive » hotlinking (update) http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7809 Hypercubed Blog » Blog Archive » hotlinking (update) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:59:22 +0000 http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/08/04/hotlinking/#comment-7809 [...] hotlinking (update) Published Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 at 9:44 pm I warned them that hotlinking is rude but they didn’t listen. I gave him a week so drastic measures were needed (don’t worry, no porn). Let’s see if he gets the hint now. [...] [...] hotlinking (update) Published Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 at 9:44 pm I warned them that hotlinking is rude but they didn’t listen. I gave him a week so drastic measures were needed (don’t worry, no porn). Let’s see if he gets the hint now. [...]

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