Comments on: Image Siphoning Fun

By: Larry Lyons

Larry Lyons — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:42:38 +0000

A friend of mine is a professional artist and had an online portfolio up on his site. A fair number of his images got siphoned on a regular basis. He’d replace the image with something he downloaded from one pics.erotic news groups, slowly replacing more of the original image each day. It usually did not take more that 3 or 4 days to the siphoner to stop.
Perhaps combined with mod-rewrite you could automate this.
larry

By: P.J. Onori

P.J. Onori — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:57:27 +0000

I’d had a horrible time with this problem. I used to do illustrations which I would obviously display on the internet. Unfortunately, a large block of my bandwidth would be taken up by teenage girls hotlinking them to their livejournals. It got so bad I had to take them off my servery and it made me seriously question my illustration style since I felt link the N’Sync of the illustration world.
There were plenty of times where I was highly tempted to swap the image with something less relevant or perhaps appropriate but I would almost always decide otherwise.
If they ever come up with a simple method for fixing this, I’ll be all over it.

By: Timothy Borkowski

Timothy Borkowski — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:34:09 +0000

This is one of my biggest frustrations. I’ve been using the image swap technique for a few years now (when I have time). For me the biggest culprits are people posting to forums. However, when the offending person happens to not specifiy image height and width, that’s when I get to have some real fun. I’ll change the graphic to whatever I have to (sometimes something vulgar, unless it’s a family oriented site), and presto, problem solved in a day or two.

By: Angela Wilson

Angela Wilson — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:11:00 +0000

A funny read… I just stumbled upon you blog today… Keep on writing its awesome.

By: tom sherman

tom sherman — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:05:07 +0000

Well I just went! Haha.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:22:51 +0000

Re #32: Yea, that is the perfect idea. Especially if it’s a corporate company that gets exposure. Every little bit helps. ‘m having the hardest time networking and getting people to visit my site.

By: tom sherman

tom sherman — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:29:09 +0000

Re #31: I used to put up an image that said “UNDERSCOREBLEACH.NET IS BETTER THAN THIS WEBSITE.” Egh.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:24:04 +0000

Or you could use it as an opportunity for advertising…LOL! Replace ti with an image w/ your URL on it and everyone will be wondering what this mystery site is popping up everywhere. Also it will rat out the web designer when his boss see’s that he’s been just stealing ideas and code from other places and getting paid top dollar for it.

By: Michael Newton

Michael Newton — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:39:15 +0000

The avid slashdot reader will have immediately thought “Ah, http://goatse.cx here I come”
You could be damned sure that image siphoning would stop in no time.
(I didn’t put a link in there, because I didn’t want anyone clicking on it, just in case it’s still online.)

By: Milan Negovan

Milan Negovan — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:07:39 +0000

Just recently I stepped on leechers' throats too. At first I was sniffing out referrers, but then a couple of Blogline subscribers pointed out they saw the anti-leeching image too, so I had to switch to a home-grown blacklist.