This is like twice now that someone at myspace.com has just hrefed an image from here, sneaking both the image and the bandwidth without so much as a tip of the hat, or leaving a 10-spot on the nightstand.
Apparently, this is a chronic problem.
Some people get -really- angry about this, and I can certainly see that if the bandwidth consumption was large. I can even see it just on principle alone; it's certainly within your rights to get pissed about it. Some have a bunch of funny images that they replace it with.
I don't think it's worth much time, so I just chmod'ed the file 0000 for the moment, and it disappeared from the offending site.
Now, if I were -really- mean, since the person didn't put the image size into the tag, I'd just put a 10,000 x 10,000 all orange/green flashing gif in it's place. That might be kinda funny. Or, maybe just a 10GB file, so everyone's browser never finishes loading the page. That would probably burn me more than anyone though, since browsers are pretty good these days about handling multiple request threads.
Update: Okay, that was excessive. I put in a 3000x3000 purple/green flashing box instead. Really cool effect, but it could probably cause seizures in the susceptible, and causing any serious medical problems would definitely be going too far, even if the risk is low. So I settled on just a big pink box, which will only cause seizures in the fashion conscious.
I'll just leave it removed I guess...but if it remains a problem, they get THE BOX. You can see it here but for god's sake don't link to it.
http://www.evilrob.org/offspring/images/scary.png.1
I am surprised you are willing to show everyone your big pink box.
I got mad because it was a photo of my kid. I mean yeah I put pics of him online and I imagine that will happen from time to time, but to see him in someone's MySpace just pissed me off. :)
I gave her a big 'you steal bandwith and photos' message.
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