HOTLINKERS.
Hey, hotlinkers. Please fuck off and die.
I just found at least NINE sites where my graphics have been hotlinked. It's not so much that I hate the fact that people are taking my graphics without (possibly) asking. In fact, I'm rather flattered that they do so (unless they're mocking them, of course... Which they had better not be doing). The PROBLEM is that I had to fork out $3 just to pay for a month of Pro Photobucket status so that I don't have to deal with bloody bandwidth problems. Needless to say, it's irritating when my pictures all suddenly disappear, especially when I've been making graphics quite often and have been posting them up. What makes it even more irritating is the fact that I neither have a Paypal or a credit card, which means that I have to use my mother's card, which means that she is going to be on my back about not buying anything stupid because she doesn't trust Internet shopping.
Seriously. It's not like $3 is that much, and I frankly think it's a fairly decent price to save you all the trouble. The problem is the principle of the thing. I hate the fact that just because people are using the pictures in my Photobucket (I'm not going to say they're ALL my own graphics, because they really aren't) on other websites, EVERYTHING I do has to suffer. I use my Photobucket account for basically everything, including schoolwork. It doesn't really look good when you have to hand in something late because some bloody stupid arsehole decided to take the URL of your picture and post it up somewhere else. I mean, how hard is it to get a FREE Photobucket, Tinypic or Imageshack account?!
The thing about this whole fiasco is the fact that I never even had a problem with hotlinking before. I never understood it; I just knew that it was bad and I didn't do it. But then this happens and it's damned lucky that I didn't have any schoolwork to be handed in today, otherwise there would be hell to pay. Seriously, hotlinkers. Fuck off and die. FUCK OFF AND DIE.
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I just found at least NINE sites where my graphics have been hotlinked. It's not so much that I hate the fact that people are taking my graphics without (possibly) asking. In fact, I'm rather flattered that they do so (unless they're mocking them, of course... Which they had better not be doing). The PROBLEM is that I had to fork out $3 just to pay for a month of Pro Photobucket status so that I don't have to deal with bloody bandwidth problems. Needless to say, it's irritating when my pictures all suddenly disappear, especially when I've been making graphics quite often and have been posting them up. What makes it even more irritating is the fact that I neither have a Paypal or a credit card, which means that I have to use my mother's card, which means that she is going to be on my back about not buying anything stupid because she doesn't trust Internet shopping.
Seriously. It's not like $3 is that much, and I frankly think it's a fairly decent price to save you all the trouble. The problem is the principle of the thing. I hate the fact that just because people are using the pictures in my Photobucket (I'm not going to say they're ALL my own graphics, because they really aren't) on other websites, EVERYTHING I do has to suffer. I use my Photobucket account for basically everything, including schoolwork. It doesn't really look good when you have to hand in something late because some bloody stupid arsehole decided to take the URL of your picture and post it up somewhere else. I mean, how hard is it to get a FREE Photobucket, Tinypic or Imageshack account?!
The thing about this whole fiasco is the fact that I never even had a problem with hotlinking before. I never understood it; I just knew that it was bad and I didn't do it. But then this happens and it's damned lucky that I didn't have any schoolwork to be handed in today, otherwise there would be hell to pay. Seriously, hotlinkers. Fuck off and die. FUCK OFF AND DIE.
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