I’m getting killed by livejournal users lately who insist on hotlinking to images on my server.

Bejesus… stop it!

I don’t know if livejournal allows you to upload your own files or not. If they do, upload your own images to it. If they don’t, for the love of all that’s good and pure, please find someplace else that does, and hotlink to that (making sure, of course, that you don’t steal anything that is copyrighted… and everything on this site is).

Each month, I go through several gig of bandwidth that is nothing but hotlinks… this costs me money, and you don’t even give me credit for my work (and no… I don’t make a dime on this or any of my websites… they’re provided out of my love for you and by the cash in my wallet).

Hold your mouse over Officer Todd to get his opinion.

One last note about hotlinking: it gives the owner of the server complete control of your website. You hotlink to an image on my site… a cute picture of a bunny… I can pretty much guarantee that I’ll replace it on my end with an image that is both disturbing and wrong (which is, of course, immediately on your site… until you find it and remove the hotlink).

It’s the small joys that keep me going.