So You Want to Leech Images From My Site?

[iLikeMyiMac]

I was checking the stats on my site today and found some jerk leeching my bandwidth.
Some guy is leeching an image from my site and using it as an avatar in his forum. The thing is that it image is a 1.3 MB gif of bush giving the middle finger. Bush Image Here (http://www.images.neilayton.com/bush%20flickoff.gif)
Why you would use a 1.3 MB image for your avatar is beyond me.
On my webspace the bush image has been replaced with a picture of ******. If you don't know who this man is be glad. It is definately NOT WORK SAFE.
Here is one thead that was found in my referrer list. (http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4543) Scroll down past halfway and look at the poster "nipper"

Read page 9 to see the discussion of it.

BTW this guy is using about 150 MB of transfer per day.
I'm going to put up an allowed referrer list on my site after I have fun with this guy.

edit: He changed his avatar but you can still see it here (pdf file) (http://images.neilayton.com/nipper.pdf)

[Thomas Veil]

On my webspace the bush image has been replaced with a picture of ******. If you don't know who this man is be glad. It is definately NOT WORK SAFE.
Here is one thead that was found in my referrer list. (http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4543) Scroll down past halfway and look at the poster "nipper"
Ew. Ew. Ew.

That's not even home safe. :eek:

[OutThere]

Ew. Ew. Ew.

That's not even home safe. :eek:

Urg.

[CaptainCaveMann]

I was checking the stats on my site today and found some jerk leeching my bandwidth.
Some guy is leeching an image from my site and using it as an avatar in his forum. The thing is that it image is a 1.3 MB gif of bush giving the middle finger. Bush Image Here (http://www.images.neilayton.com/bush%20flickoff.gif)
Why you would use a 1.3 MB image for your avatar is beyond me.
On my webspace the bush image has been replaced with a picture of ******. If you don't know who this man is be glad. It is definately NOT WORK SAFE.
Here is one thead that was found in my referrer list. (http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4543) Scroll down past halfway and look at the poster "nipper"

If the guy changes it I have a .pdf print off of the page.

BTW this guy is using about 150 MB of transfer per day.
I'm going to put up an allowed referrer list on my site after I have fun with this guy.What does leeching my bandwith mean? Thats a disgusting pic

[iLikeMyiMac]

Ew. Ew. Ew.

That's not even home safe. :eek:
I think the guy deserves it. Everytime he posts he hotlinks a huge image from my site and costs me bandwidth.

[edesignuk]

ah, I love it when leechers get what they're asking for! Good man :cool:

[MacDawg]

I think the guy deserves it. Everytime he posts he hotlinks a huge image from my site and costs me bandwidth.

People like that are either ignorant or arrogant.
Either way, they learn their lesson. :o

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[iLikeMyiMac]

What does leeching my bandwith mean? Thats a disgusting pic
people who embed images from your Web site in their page so they get the image at your bandwidth expense

[iLikeMyiMac]

People like that are either ignorant or arrogant.
Either way, they learn their lesson. :o

Woof, Woof - Dawg
Yeah. I'm hoping that forum has a policy against offensive images in avatars so he could possibly get banned.

[CaptainCaveMann]

Yeah. I'm hoping that forum has a policy against offensive images in avatars so he could possibly get banned.Wow thats impressive you must be a hacker haha. How did you put that image in his avatar? Pretty cool. Please dont do that to me :::throws white flag up:::

[iLikeMyiMac]

Wow thats impressive you must be a hacker haha. How did you put that image in his avatar? Pretty cool. Please dont do that to me :::throws white flag up:::
http://images.neilayton.com/edit%20avatar.png
Do you see where it says "enter avatar url"? what he did was put http://www.images.neilayton.com/bush%20flickoff.gif there. After I found this out I replaced the bush image with the image of the man you saw in the thread on my website. I changed the file name of the new image to match that of the old so when the site loaded it it would load the image of the man tearing apart his anus instead of bush.

[Apple Hobo]

That's worse than edesign's F___ you, Mate pic.http://bellsouthpwp.net/g/s/gserv2/gifs/lol.gif

[12ibookg4]

where do you find these nasty pictures, imac? in to that kind of stuff? ;)

[OutThere]

That's worse than edesign's F___ you, Mate pic.http://bellsouthpwp.net/g/s/gserv2/gifs/lol.gif

I think the f you mate pic had more humour, this one is just nasty. Urg.

[edesignuk]

I think the f you mate pic had more humour, this one is just nasty. Urg.
Yeah, that's how I looked at it. I wouldn't want my little brother coming across the ****** image, but the f you mate one doesn't do any harm.

[pseudobrit]

****** is an old classic

[iLikeMyiMac]

****** is an old classic
That is why I picked it. I thought what is the worst picture I could find.

[OutThere]

That is why I picked it. I thought what is the worst picture I could find.

I've been the victim of, and seen too many other people being the victims of returning to their computers to find ****** as the background. :eek:

[Sun Baked]

Way too many of these self-love threads.

Considering the image this thread is about... http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11013&stc=1

[MacNeXT]

I've been the victim of, and seen too many other people being the victims of returning to their computers to find ****** as the background. :eek:

Haha yes I've done this one time. At one time, everyone tried to do this trick with a class mate, who had made it a bit TOO clear that he'd never ever ever ever wanted to see that picture again. But (I believe) no one managed to make him look at it again. Until I configured my MSN avatar as ****** (obvously, temporarily blocking everyone who was online - except for him), and started a conversation with him. Hilarious how we heard him scream on the other side of the class room.

[whocares]

I'm going to put up an allowed referrer list on my site after I have fun with this guy.

How does one do that? I guess it's to do with the .htaccess file, but I've gone through the Apache documentation and haven't found what is was looking for. Any pointers?


And it's a nasty way of dealing with those punks :D :p

[edesignuk]

How does one do that? I guess it's to do with the .htaccess file, but I've gone through the Apache documentation and haven't found what is was looking for. Any pointers?


And it's a nasty way of dealing with those punks :D :p
Here's how I do it with .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer1.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer2.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer3.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ http://URLtoRedirect.com/image.jpg [R,NC]
Options All -Indexes

[Durandal7]

BTW this guy is using about 150 MB of transfer per day.

150MB a day?! He deserves whatever you can throw at him.

[whocares]

Here's how I do it with .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer1.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer2.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?permittedreferer3.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ http://URLtoRedirect.com/image.jpg [R,NC]
Options All -Indexes


Thanx a lot. I take it I can have referers that go all the way down to a specific page/script, not just a domain?

[edesignuk]

Thanx a lot. I take it I can have referers that go all the way down to a specific page/script, not just a domain?
That I don't know, I just found enough info to do what I wanted to do.

Google! ;)

[whocares]

That I don't know, I just found enough info to do what I wanted to do.

Google! ;)

Well, you seemed to be an expert in the war againts laechers, I just thaught I could push my lazy luck. :cool:

[urban1985_]

Wow that's disgusting. But it does teach him a lesson.

[Metatron]

That is just awsome....the picture swap I mean, of course.

As for the picture you chose. Well, I don't have words to describe it. But the dude deserves it.

[iLikeMyiMac]

Update: There was another leeching website on my referrer list. torrentit.com It turns out that it is the same guy. (Same image leeched and same location:Ireland)
Link to his user ID NOT WORK SAFE (http://www.torrentit.com/userdetails.php?id=90691) You will need a login and pass. I made one
login: anon98
password: 123456
He also posted in here ALSO NOT WORK SAFE (http://www.torrentit.com/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=64&page=53)
Its not really anything new, same ******
Also I found the rules on the torrent site and it appears that offensive images as avatars are not allowed. :D

[OutThere]

Update: There was another leeching website on my referrer list. torrentit.com It turns out that it is the same guy. (Same image leeched and same location:Ireland)
Link to his user ID NOT WORK SAFE (http://www.torrentit.com/userdetails.php?id=90691) You will need a login and pass. I made one
login: anon98
password: 123456
He also posted in here ALSO NOT WORK SAFE (http://www.torrentit.com/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=64&page=53)
Its not really anything new, same ******
Also I found the rules on the torrent site and it appears that offensive images as avatars are not allowed. :D

Funny thing is, it's going to be a slow process of people getting to see it, because right now it's probably cached in many people's browsers. :D

[virividox]

thats just scary gross

[snkTab]

Funny thing is, it's going to be a slow process of people getting to see it, because right now it's probably cached in many people's browsers. :D

if you think about it, it's cached in his browser. so he'll just keep on posting.

[jared_kipe]

Oh that is a good one, several people here are having a laugh about it. Almost as good as the "look what target sells this week" thread a while back.

[snkTab]

haha, looks like people are starting to complain in the original forum link you sent.

[Phat_Pat]

Nipper your Avi, is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
jesus christ - consider that motion seconded.
I ain't pc either but that is just crossing over the line of decency.
Nipper........Really bad in fairness and I am well able to post borderline material......but that no.
That avi is overstepping the mark a bit in fairness. Didnt notice it until now...

hahahhahaha thats great man... he deserves it.

edit: ugh that pic has a after effect....... ugggh

[snkTab]

edit: ugh that pic has a after effect....... ugggh

you weren't suppose to lick it

[spikeovsky]

Where was the Bush footage from? It doesn't *look* doctored.

I saw the ****** picture about 5 years ago and still bear the scars. I suggest that those of you who are curious check the
Wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******.cx) instead of looking at the photo. Blech. On the other hand, scanning through that right now, I see there are links to lots of things that sound equally bad, so maybe you should just look at the original picture and get it over with :(

[Koodauw]

From what I understand some guys avatar was on your website, the picture of bush flickin someone off.

since he was stealing your bandwidth, you changed it to a picture of a guy with his head up his arse? Cause thats what nipper's tar is now.

I dont get what is so very offensive.

Maybe im just gettin in on this too late, and nipper was able to change his tar, but I am thouroughly lost.

[MacDawg]

Yeah, the 'tar was changed

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[iLikeMyiMac]

Apologies to anyone who saw the avi....Some "sick" people got into my account and changed it....
He is trying to pass it off as someone else loging into his account and changing it not as the result of him leeching images from me.

From what I understand some guys avatar was on your website, the picture of bush flickin someone off.

since he was stealing your bandwidth, you changed it to a picture of a guy with his head up his arse? Cause thats what nipper's tar is now.

I dont get what is so very offensive.

Maybe im just gettin in on this too late, and nipper was able to change his tar, but I am thouroughly lost.
No it was a picture of a man streatching out his anus. Do a google search for "******" Be warned that it is NOT WORK SAFE.
I printed off a pdf of the forum before he changed it. You can view it here 684KB NOT WORK SAFE (http://images.neilayton.com/nipper.pdf)

[emw]

From what I understand some guys avatar was on your website, the picture of bush flickin someone off.

since he was stealing your bandwidth, you changed it to a picture of a guy with his head up his arse? Cause thats what nipper's tar is now.

I dont get what is so very offensive.

Maybe im just gettin in on this too late, and nipper was able to change his tar, but I am thouroughly lost.

Nipper linked to a large image on iLikeMyiMac's website. As a result, every time nipper or anyone else loaded nipper's avatar, it would pull down a 1.3MB image from iLikeMyiMac's web site, costing him bandwidth, and potentially money. Plus, it's just uncool to do, and this guy did it in a number of ways.

To "pay him back", iLikeMyiMac simply replaced the picture the guy was linking to (Bush flipping somebody off) with this more offensive picture.

Hilarious, if you ask me.

[MacDawg]

Hey, iLikeMyiMac, I've been following the thread from the beginning.

I was wondering, do you personally think he is that arrogant and knows what he was doing, or do you think that he is just ignorant and doesn't really know what happened?

Just curious. I'm kinda 50/50 on it.
Some people just don't understand the mechanics of it.
Then again, he did know enough to type in the url :rolleyes:

Anybody posted a link to this thread in his forum so his 'buddies' can see the 'truth' and how he is being made fun of here?

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[emw]

He is trying to pass it off as someone else loging into his account and changing it not as the result of him leeching images from me.
You could login and correct him :D

[iLikeMyiMac]

Where was the Bush footage from? It doesn't *look* doctored.
It was linked to in a thread here a couple months ago. I exported the .mov to a .gif with imageready. I searched for but couldn't find you a link to the original thread.