One way I've taken revenge on bandwidth thieves in the past is to change the name of the file they're leaching (as well as all references to the file on pages I own) and put an obnoxious file in it's place. I haven't done this trick in years, but it is oh-so-fun. What I put in the file's place depends on who's doing the leaching. For example, when a bdsm site was stealing my backgrounds, I changed the background of their site to a tiling high contrast "Jesus Saves" image with a large orange cross; when someone on a message board added the caption "He's so sexy" to a image they stole of John Koviak off a friend's site I was hosting, I replaced the image with a picture of Barney; when a conservative christian site was stealing another one of my backgrounds, I splattered their website with some, well, material they certainly didn't appreciate. The possibilities are endless.

I should check my logs, I bet I can find some people to have fun with.

Direct linking to my background images from other sites is now blocked. If a background of mine that you are using has turned into a copy of my rules of use, email me at backgrounds@neitherday.com for an alternate URL.

As of December 14^th, neitherday.com will block direct linking to my background images. If I have given you a special URL to link to, you are fine. If I have not and you wish to continue to use one of my backgrounds linked directly from my site, please email me at backgrounds@neitherday.com.

Caught and stopped one leech. Stealing bandwidth with one of my space backgrounds. Usually get leeches from the U.S., this one was from Germany.

I just found this picture from our "Be Bad On Good Friday" party last year while organizing old files on my harddrive.



Now I'm going to go through my site access logs and look for leeches.