COUGAR: Bandwidth Theft

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:34 pm

NOTE: this was originally part of the Freeway blogger thread. -Lothar

Cougar: didn't Stresstest teach you your lesson with the wheel-of-phallus? DO NOT PUT AN IMAGE IN YOUR POST IF THE IMAGE IS NOT ON YOUR SERVER. It's called leeching, it's a form of theft, and it's just not cool.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:16 am

obviously the lesson didn't stick Lothar..

Cougar · Post by **Cougar** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:18 am

Lothar wrote:[off topic]

Cougar: didn't Stresstest teach you your lesson with the wheel-of-phallus? DO NOT PUT AN IMAGE IN YOUR POST IF THE IMAGE IS NOT ON YOUR SERVER. It's called leeching, it's a form of theft, and it's just not cool.

[/off topic]

You guys are some of the most anal retentive mother fuckers I've ever known.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:40 am

Hey Cougar, give me $5. You'll never miss it. Or are you too anal retentive?

Cougar · Post by **Cougar** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:29 am

Dedman wrote:Hey Cougar, give me $5. You'll never miss it. Or are you too anal retentive?

What do ya need it for? A good cause? Sure.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:40 am

Cougar wrote:
Dedman wrote:Hey Cougar, give me $5. You'll never miss it. Or are you too anal retentive?
What do ya need it for? A good cause? Sure.

Stop lying to yourself.

Cougar · Post by **Cougar** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:48 am

snoopy wrote:
Cougar wrote:
Dedman wrote:Hey Cougar, give me $5. You'll never miss it. Or are you too anal retentive?
What do ya need it for? A good cause? Sure.
Stop lying to yourself.

Seriously though, I make plenty of money, $5 is nothing.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:20 pm

Cougar wrote:Seriously though, I make plenty of money, $5 is nothing.

Then buy webspace and host your own images there.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:22 pm

MD-2389 wrote:
Cougar wrote:Seriously though, I make plenty of money, $5 is nothing.
Then buy webspace and host your own images there. :roll:

*APPLAUSE*

Seriously, Cougar... do you realize that every time you use an image from somebody else's server, you're stealing from them? If you put their image in your post, then every time someone reads your post, they download the image from that other person's server, increading that person's server traffic. That costs the other person money.

Instead of stealing... spend $5 a month to get your own webspace (or use the space your ISP provides for you), and when you see an image you want to use, copy it there.

Don't give me this "you guys are all anal" crap as an excuse to brush off criticism. We might be anal, but you're a thief who's been caught and embarrassed more than once now.

You have no excuse for stealing other people's bandwidth. If $5 is no big deal to you, go buy some webspace. And if $5 is a big deal to you, ask someone to host the images you want to use. If you're just too n00b to understand how to put images on your own webspace, we even have the Tech Forum where you can ask for help. So quit stealing.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:49 pm

MD gets the cookie.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:58 pm

Dedman wrote:MD gets the cookie.

hhm.. then how gets the burnt biscuit?

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:17 pm

Dedman wrote:MD gets the cookie.

With "teh whipped cream"?

EDIT:

Cougar, you can also use the built-in bbcode and just embed a link

Code: Select all

[url=http://www.whatever.com/image.jpg]Click here[/url]

That way, you're not stealing bandwith and you get to link to wherever its hosted without getting bitched at.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:05 pm

MD-2389 wrote:
Dedman wrote:MD gets the cookie.
With "teh whipped cream"?

Don't push it

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:43 pm

If you have such a problem with this, why can't you either PM the offender or take it up with Xciter?

Bandwidth theft sucks. Let's leave it at that.