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COUGAR: Bandwidth Theft
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:34 pm
by Lothar
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:16 am
by Ferno
obviously the lesson didn't stick Lothar..
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:18 am
by Cougar
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:40 am
by Dedman
Hey Cougar, give me $5. You'll never miss it. Or are you too anal retentive?
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:29 am
by Cougar
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:40 am
by snoopy
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:48 am
by Cougar
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:20 pm
by MD-2389
Cougar wrote:Seriously though, I make plenty of money, $5 is nothing.
Then buy webspace and host your own images there.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:22 pm
by Lothar
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:49 pm
by Dedman
MD gets the cookie.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:58 pm
by Duper
Dedman wrote:MD gets the cookie.
hhm.. then how gets the burnt biscuit?
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:17 pm
by MD-2389
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:05 pm
by Dedman
MD-2389 wrote:Dedman wrote:MD gets the cookie.
With "teh whipped cream"?
Don't push it
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:43 pm
by Kyouryuu
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.