Can someone help me tell this person not to inline FFF.NET images?
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 09:35
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Hiya,
I don't mind other sites inlining news related images, but this site:
http://www.runner.ch/firefly/index.html
is just overdoing it a bit to the point where even I would consider it theft of bandwidth.
Can someone who understands the language help me tell that webmaster not to do it?
Thanks,
Haken
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call be ignorant (actually, i would rather you did not 
) but i do not understand what you mean. i am not a computer guru, so an explanation would be greatly appreciated!
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Inlining is the process whereby Website A (the foreign site) loads images from Website B (FFF.NET) for visitors to Website A.
Everytime one of these images are loaded when someone visits Website A, a bit of bandwidth is stolen from Website B.
Most webmasters consider it theft because the amount of bandwidth stolen can translate to higher hosting fee for the hosting website (in this case FFF.NET).
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that is rude. i hope you can get them to stop. if you want to translate the page, you can use this website:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
it does not give perfect translations, but you can get the general idea.
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You mean the images that are on this particular site are ones that are actually hosted by FFF.net, and this site's just routing to the link to show them?
If that's the case, it looks like he's doing it from the original official FOX site for the show, too.
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Are you catching 'em in the referer's log?
PS: looks a bit German... have you tried setting babelfish to German?
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
Are you catching 'em in the referer's log?
Yeah. He's beginning to move up the referer list so I took a look. I don't mind that a lot of the images he used came from my site, but what I do mind is, as an example, the little javascript he has running that loads the random images directly from FFF.NET. He can have the images, just don't steal our bandwidth.
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Yes, it is indeed german. Though I guess the guy would understand it if you just wrote him in english. But I can also write him an email.
edit: I just mailed him.
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btw, what is .ch? China?
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