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May 17, 2006
Ouch. . .
I've been bloggin pretty lightly over the last month or so, mostly because I've had other things going on and getting ready to implement some layout/structure changes with the blog itself. So you can imagine my surprise when I decided to check out my server stats (not Sitemeter) and saw that somehow my bandwidth had skyrocketed to over three times it's normal level (So far this month I'm 10 gigs over the blog's busiest month.). At first I thought it was a result of the server migration my webhost conducted at the end of April, but after a deeper look, I realized that after a year and a half of getting away with light controls on the blog, the hotlinkers and bandwidth theives had finally raped my site and have been directly linking alot of the videos here.
I began tracking down alot of the bandwidth thieves over the course of the day, and most have responded politely and agreed to save the hotlinked videos to their own sites, a few even worked with me to transfer alot of the videos and flash presentations here over to YouTube, Google Video and other sites more friendly to the casual blogger who wants to throw up a video now and then.
A relative few reacted with anger and threats, very surprising actually, but hey "Some people's kids. . . " right?
So starting tomorrow, alot of the video clips, audio clips and large images will be gone until I can lay in some controls. I hate hitting broken links just as much as anyone else, but I've got to do it.
If you're using something and suddenly it's gone, drop me an email and I'll send you a copy or give you a temporary link to download a copy. I probably won't bother with alot of the smaller images, and if you're someone I like (hint, hint, Mr. Dunbar) I'll leave it alone until I can get in touch with ya.
My apologies in advance if you come looking for something and it's unavailable, check back later and I'll be putting it back up, you just won't be able to hotlink it (if you do wind up hotlinking it, and I find out, don't be surprised if suddenly in turns into a gay porn video on your family webpage).
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at May 17, 2006 11:30 PM
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