2008/05/02 04:47:28
hot-linking fun
So I was looking through the stats for bbot.org, when I saw a whole lot of incoming hits from http://www.rediscussed.com/2008/02/23/futuremark-3dmark-vantage/. Clicking through, I noticed an image that was awwwful familiar...
And sure enough, that's frame 250 from my water simulation page. This is called "hot-linking" and boy oh boy is it not cool. First of all, he's using my image without permission. I don't care, but he's also using my bandwidth which means he is directly costing me money, which is completely unacceptable.
Second of all, what little content there is in that blog post seems to be about DX10's water simulation capabilities, which will look pretty much nothing like the output of a non-realtime CGI suite like Blender. Not only is it a stolen image, but it's an inaccurately stolen image.
And third of all, he's using my hosting, which means he's pointing to a file on my server. And there isn't a thing in the world to keep me from changing that file.
Hot linking isn't cool. Don't do it.
(I would be remiss in not mentioning Dan's Adventures In Hot-Linking.)