Judgement Call - Should I Rickroll people who hotlink my images?
I make silly animated gifs sometimes, it’s kind of a hobby. Ok I’ll be honest it’s not really a hobby, it’s an artifact of my early web experiements thinking I could ‘make a name’ or ‘make a buck’ doing stock animated gifs of 3D stuff on the web. That was until I discovered the massive stock art collections that already exist.
I posted a small number of those experiements to my blog, http://droffset.blogspot.com just for fun.
But now people are hotlinking to them, and It doesn’t take that much bandwitdh from me, infact it brings more hits to my content than my own blog, which says a lot for my blog…
Part of me rages and goes ‘how dare they’ and makes me want to replace that gif with something crazy, something mean, let their visitors knowthat i caught them.
One is a funny pictures blog in a language i don’t understand, the other is a Christian school. I know, the possibilities are endless!
But then i remember that I’m hotlinking a few images from other sites as well…so i guess i won’t do it.
But i kind of want to.
