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Stopping Bandwith Theft
I've been a victim of theft. These thiefs haven't stolen anything material from me, but bandwidth. These sad creeps link images from other people's servers.
I studied my site logs, you see. A Deadjournal user had linked to my site and I went to see what it was about. It wasn't a link at all - she had stolen a picture from my website to use as her background image. That kind of theft can't be tolerated. If only she had even copied the picture on her web sites, but no. Well, if she wants to store her background image on my server, she must allow me to change it whenever I want... The pictures tell the story of before and after. She should be lucky I didn't use hard core porn... 
The problem is wider, however. My album cover pictures are used widely. They aren't my property as such and I don't mind someone copying them (that's what I did to get them, after all), but I don't like when people use my bandwidth to decorate their web sites.
Fortunately, there's a solution. Preventing Image Bandwith Theft With .htaccess describes how to stop the thiefs. Now you can't see the pictures, unless your referrer information tells you're coming from Melankolia.net. This will hurt some legitimate users, but not many. It's a nice solution to an annoying problem.
12.04.2004 klo 15:22
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7.04.2004 klo 10:50
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Permalinks and lake Bodom
I moved the permalinks to title so that the title of the entry is the link text. That's good thing, usability-wise, I think. Link text should tell something about the target of the link, not about the function, I suppose. I think that's fairly elegant solution, which I've seen used elsewhere.
Biggest and most interesting news in Finland right now is the Lake Bodom murder case. Three young campers were brutally killed at the Lake Bodom in Espoo 44 years ago. The murder has remained a mystery until now. Police has arrested the person they think probably did it. What's surprising is that the person arrested is the fourth camper, who survived the attack. Now DNA evidence points to his direction.
If it really is him, I'd say that's pretty amazing. Of course it's a good thing such a classic murder mystery is solved and murder is found. But imagine how the murderer must have felt! For 44 years he has been able to hide the fact that he brutally stabbed three of his friends to death. What that must've done to his psyche! This, of course, assuming he really did it.
Police has been quite quiet about it this far, but at least I'm rather curious to hear more details about the case.
4.04.2004 klo 16:42
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