Hotlinkers need pain

[alianora]

so, this person on some OC board, has strung together some of my icons (really, only one - brens hands) with several of fallen_graphix's bren icons.

this would even be kind of cool, except for the fact they are HOTLINKING to them, wasting my bandwidth and COSTING ME MONEY. i have to pay for my bandwidth, kids, due to the fact i own my own domain.

i know this, as i know how to use my stats to find out how people get to my site and anything on it. including the pics and graphics. so i went on a hotlinker hunt yesterday, and emailed one possibly seven year old who cant type about hotlinking my 'allo!' icon.

she emailed me back: im sry alia i can upgrade stuff im really sry u have aol i do?

what? was that even english?

am having a bad couple of days.

screwed up my blog last night and managed to wipe the database while trying to install wordpress, and now i cant log in at all! *cries* and im going to have to reinstall the stupid thing again, and all my pretty pretty posts are gone! *weeps bitterly*

gah. not good day. bad. bad bad.

Comments

[sirkpega.livejournal.com]

*pets* i'm so sorry, hun! did the person that can't apparently speak english stop hotlinking yet? 'cause it sounds like she's a bit more than confused about the whole thing ... or maybe that's just me ..

have you e-mailed the scrolly person yet to tell her to stop costing you money? bit-ca! maybe you can just block her from using your stuff ... (i don't even know if that's possible ...) OOOH! or it would be funny to replace the bren hands pic extention she's using with another icon that says "stop hotlinking, asshole!" . then you can just repost the bren hands icon under a different name. then she'd be hotlinked to the funny icon! i'd laugh ...

or do want me to go kick their butts for you? 'cause i will!

[indigodragyn.livejournal.com]

Hotlinkers are stupid. Really. -_-;; I pay for my own domain too, and I've definitely felt your grief.

Which reminds me, I should go do my monthly check of incoming traffic to my site...