We've had folks hotlink images from TK's server before. Basically, hotlinking is where, instead of hosting an image on your own server, you just grab it from someone else's. This is considered rude, since your server gets hit every time they load their page. (I once got in a pissing match with another blogger about her hotlinking my image, but backed off when I realized that I was acting like an ass about it.) Now, for low-trafficked sites, this isn't usually a big deal, cost-wise. Sometimes a polite email will do the trick. Or you can swap the image, so that what they're linking to isn't what they originally wanted. For instance, some folks persisted in hotlinking the Flying Spaghetti Monster button I made, so I replaced this:

with this:

Some people are still using the WWJD version. Really.

So Jason Scott found that he was getting lots of hits on one image. Lots and lots and lots of hits. From Myspace.

So, he used the nuclear option -- he replaced it with Goatse. If you have to ask what Goaste is, you don't want to know. Really. The link will take you the Wikipedia page which describes it, if you must, but it's enough to know that it's a really really really offensive moving image. Somehow I myself have avoided seeing the damn thing, but I know enough to laugh heartily at the idea of hundreds of MySpacers suddenly seeing it. Scott's article is worth reading for his take on the MySpace phenonemon as the new AOL.

Story via Waxy.

M E-L posted this on January 04, 2007
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