Question for the Sea-bloggers

155 words written by dylan
Posted April 07, 2005 @ 01:29 AM
6 comments

Say there's a 15 year old goth kid out there. Say she does some image siphoning and, well, posts a picture from your site to the goth forum she hangs out on.

What would you do? How much humiliation should I submit her to? And how much should all this be tempered by the fact the date of the post on the forum was April 1?

Thoughts?

UPDATE (4/8): Vengance is mine.

So what happened is that this 15 year old goth girl took a picture of Annabel and claimed it was her "baby sister." Unfortunately for her, she linked to the pic and sopped up some of my bandwidth. So, Ben was happy to let me use a picture of his notarized, er, arse to replace the Annabel pic.

Poor Miss Goth Girl Dying For Attention is going to get the attention she wants now.

By the way... which one of you is not_tellin?

Comments

  1. D - you should SO be honored that someone thought your lame ass, crooked horizon photos were worth "stealing". :) Send her black roses and a box of new razor blades.

    But - seriously - let people steal your shit - if they make a mint off it sue them - otherwise who cares?

    -ben

    Posted by: ben | April 7, 2005 06:05 AM

  2. Well since it sounds like they just linked to the picture on your site, which means that you are footing the bandwidth bills. If it's not a heavily used forum and you never get close to your sites bandwidth limit, then it might not be a big deal to you. I consider it rude if someone just hotlinks to an image on my site. When someone did it to me, I replace the image with one that said "I steal bandwidth".

    Seriously, it's not that hard to "save image as..." and host it yourself somewhere.

    Posted by: Scott | April 7, 2005 07:15 AM

  3. So, what's the link so we can have a look-see? I had someone hotlinking before... it really depends on whether you object to the image being used or not. If not, you could always modify the image with a watermark that is the URL to your site (a little free publicity).

    Posted by: George | April 7, 2005 11:24 AM

  4. Well, since I've now shown it to Susan and she laughed rather than went looking for the phone and a burning torch...

    http://www.zenhex.com/viewthread.php?tid=48649

    Don't you love 15 year old goth girls who crave attention?

    Posted by: dw | April 7, 2005 11:45 AM

  5. Looks like you changed the pic yesterday. What I was going to ask... If that's her new baby sister, does that mean you guys have a new teenage daughter? ;)

    Posted by: George Chang | April 8, 2005 01:06 PM

  6. If it was my teenage daughter, I'd be grounding her from the internets for a while.

    That site looks like a pedophile playground.

    Posted by: dw | April 8, 2005 01:15 PM