By now you’ve all probably seen the disclaimer I’ve had to add at the bottom of every one of my strips. I might as well explain it before people get the wrong idea. So I’ll make it as simple as possible here:
I pay for bandwidth usage.
I have something like 60megs worth of images online.
People like to use my images.
Instead of hosting them on their own sites they simply use the url to an image off of my site and present them as their own.
I get charged for the bandwidth they use since the images are hosted on my site.
They hardly ever link back to me in exchange for it or credit this site in any way.
My server statistics software sucks and only gives me partial urls (for example, it’ll tell me that fark.com’s forums are linking me but not where or what is being linked).
A recent example of this came when someone on fark.com linked us in the comments section. It took 2 hours of searching to find the post and what they were linking to then to take the image down.
I don’t have the time or resources to track down every one of these links.
I’m also not made of money to pay all the bandwidth costs. Believe it or not, I make zip off this site. I do it for the love of TechTV and for the fact that I have no freaking life. I want one, but if I keep having to pay bandwidth fees, I’m not going to have one anytime soon.
So I’m asking nicely: If you want to use the pictures from this site please steal them. Put them on your own server. I don’t even care if you give me a link back.
If you don’t want to (or can’t) do that, please provide a link to https://www.reallycoolsite.org when you use the picture. So I at least get something back for the bandwidth fees.
Thanks,
k9