Comments on: I’m a bad bad man…

By: Gordon Dewis

Gordon Dewis — Mon, 30 May 2005 19:29:41 +0000

It may have been a copyright infringement because though the pictures were hosted on a site other than the MSN gallery, they were being used as content in the MSN gallery and the heading suggested that the pictures were the gallery owner’s work.

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Mon, 30 May 2005 14:30:18 +0000

While the MSN gallery may have been discourterous, it is hardly constituted a copyright infringement. It was just a link.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 May 2005 02:11:30 +0000

&rw: The biter bit? The image URL you are serving up now redirects to http://sportsplaynow.com/spam110.html.

Me, I’d redirect to a mirror gallery with the same image names (and sizes, so their page layout is unaffected) but of singularly unattractive bird pictures. Vultures at dinner, a dead seagull on the high tide mark, neurotic parrots that have plucked all their own plumage, that sort of thing.

Yes, my time is worthless…

By: Simes

Simes — Sat, 28 May 2005 20:36:05 +0000

Always fun to do that; if you’re feeling *really* evil then its fairly trival to create a single colour GIF or PNG which has a size of 5000×5000. The single colour means that it compresses down really nicely and doesn’t hurt your bandwidth. However when a browser views it nasty things happen - quite a few turn it from a nice small file into a 5000×5000 byte block of memory! This either crashes the machine viewing it or makes it really quite slow.

By: &rw

&rw — Sat, 28 May 2005 11:45:28 +0000

You’re getting soft, old man.

Personally, I use
RedirectMatch permanent ^.*fuehrerschein.jpg.*$ http://www.borah.schoolreference.com/images/tubgirl.jpg

By: rich

rich — Sat, 28 May 2005 02:01:35 +0000

I love doing that. For me, it’s a gallery of coworkers-as-South-Park characters that people remotely link as forum avatars, mostly, and a White Stripes wallpaper that ends up as a thousand teenagers’ LiveJournal background.

I thought about goatse, but decided that the remote linkers might actually find that amusing for the same reason that I did, so these days I rewrite to one of the images in here. They tend to fix the problem quickly.