The "Do not embed Sumea's images" thread

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Submitted by souri on
Forum
tsumea

I am kinda getting sick of other websites, blogs, and what-not sourcing images from this site. The problem here is that they're embedding the images from this site into theirs, so Sumea's server works doubly hard because it has to provide images for their visitors. This isn't proper internet ettiquette and, unfortunately, there is a tonne of it happening, so I'm taking measures into my own hands.

This thread will be the "Do not embed Sumea's images" thread, and I will post about places that have been thieving Sumea's bandwidth. The catch is that I will be replacing the images that they are using on Sumea with something else. Example:

Ozedood has created a [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/sprofilepic.asp?pic=4_ssoldier.jpg&id=4&news=372"]really fab soldier drawing here[/url]. Unfortunately, this blogger is using the soldier picture from Sumea for his website. I've renamed the soldier picture to something else for Ozedood so his journal entry is fine, and I've put in its place a pic of some old guy wearing a Walmart plastic bag. [url="http://www.crushspot.com/profile.php?u=Carolinacrunk25"]You can see the changes here[/url]. Please make note of the matching sideway wearing cap!

(more to follow)

Submitted by souri on Sun, 26/06/05 - 4:31 PMPermalink

Well, there you go, that was quick. He's not using the image anymore. [:D]

Submitted by J I Styles on Mon, 27/06/05 - 1:51 AMPermalink

ooooooh lovely concept there souri -- practical and sneakily nasty [:)]

I feel bad about it, but it makes me kinda want more idiots to steal bandwidth! Just to enjoy more of the funny pics you replace it with [:D]

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 27/06/05 - 4:15 AMPermalink

lol thats brilliant, look forward to seeing more replaced pictures :P

Submitted by Anuxinamoon on Mon, 27/06/05 - 10:15 AMPermalink

quote: HEY WATS UP CRUSH SPOT, THIS YOU MAN ALEX REPPIN NC. IMMA TELL YALL A LIL BIT ABOUT ME. FURST MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE IS TO BE A RECORDING ARTIST.

I think my IQ dropped 3 points after reading that. [:x]

Pitty I didn't get to see the plastic bag guy, That would have been really funny [:D]

Submitted by redwyre on Mon, 27/06/05 - 11:28 AMPermalink

next time take a screenie Souri!

What about some kind of link prevention?

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 27/06/05 - 11:17 PMPermalink

well... this is more fun then link prevention ;)

Submitted by souri on Thu, 30/06/05 - 8:30 AMPermalink

Well, if you can imagine [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/4_soldierL.jpg"]this picture[/url] being smack in the middle of his blog (instead of that pencil drawing he has now), then that's pretty much it.

There's about 5 or so more sites and forums embedding Sumea's images (and probably countless others, but they've disappeared from my logs since they're from old blog entries/forum posts that are no longer visited, but they're still there).

Anyway, [url="http://www.rottemusen.1go.dk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=242"]this guy[/url] is using Anuxinamoon's avatar on Sumea for his avatar for forum posts. So, for every visitor that sees his messages on that board, Sumea has to serve that image. He's definately next.

Submitted by Anuxinamoon on Thu, 30/06/05 - 1:18 PMPermalink

How dare he steal my avatar! Whats even worse; I can't understand what he's saying! [:x]

Oh by the way, I cracked up when I saw the walmart guy!!! Haha! That picture is classic! Good job Souri! [:D]

Submitted by 3DArty on Thu, 30/06/05 - 5:20 PMPermalink

Me been bad sorry Souri,I had no ider that it would stuff up the server has been fix. now that I know what is dose.:(

Submitted by MoonUnit on Thu, 30/06/05 - 9:04 PMPermalink

i think hes just saying that he was also linking to this site, but hes fixed that now. hey can we run a suggestion box for what to replace it with? lol or better make another sumea quick activity for the replacement image XD

Submitted by Jacana on Fri, 01/07/05 - 5:02 AMPermalink

Maybe when Souri is lacking a new poll it could be the poll of what picture to use next?

My vote is on the Hasslehoff pic with the puppy for the next guy!

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Sun, 24/07/05 - 8:56 AMPermalink

That's the most magical elf I've ever seen, good job Souri. :)

Submitted by J I Styles on Sun, 24/07/05 - 7:40 PMPermalink

oh man, Souri... you have to put up a dedicated main page section for this [:)] just too good not to!

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 25/07/05 - 12:12 AMPermalink

hahaha! great stuff :)

Submitted by redwyre on Thu, 28/07/05 - 2:59 AMPermalink

I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, great work Souri!

Submitted by souri on Sun, 31/07/05 - 11:30 PMPermalink

This guy used the Destroy All Humans screenshots on Sumea to sell it on Ebay...

Before:
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730232823_DAH1.gif[/img]

After: Here's a human that's worth destroying (please note, this image is a tiny tiny little bit disturbing)...
[url="http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730232841_DAH2.jpg"]DAH2.jpg[/url]
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5221798903&category=2

Submitted by souri on Sun, 31/07/05 - 11:58 PMPermalink

Someone was using [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/sprofilepic.asp?pic=335_monster_finalizedd.jpg&…"]Openanewworld's pic[/url] in their forum..

Before:
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730235624_monster1.jpg…]

After (ok, I thought last pic was funny so I reused it again this time.)
[url="http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730235652_monster2.jpg"]monster2.jpg[/url]
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http://www.etownravepage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17271

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 01/08/05 - 12:15 AMPermalink

oh man this is tops, if anyone makes "omg wtf" remarks we need to see that too :P

Submitted by souri on Wed, 03/08/05 - 1:24 AMPermalink

Ok, I've realised that this problem is really going to get compounded when I open up the journals, and I doubt that I can keep on doing this every time an image is embedded from Sumea, so I think I will be simply renaming the images directory every few months and adjusting the site's code each time.

Submitted by Pantmonger on Wed, 03/08/05 - 5:04 AMPermalink

Out of interest how do you go about back tracking those bandwidth stealing images. The logs provided by my service provider let me know which site is responsible for the leaching and how much, but not the specific image or the specific location on the offending site.

Pantmonger

Submitted by souri on Wed, 03/08/05 - 11:09 AMPermalink

My logs are pretty comprehensive. It just depends on what software your webhosts are using. My previous cheaper/smaller webhost had a pretty simple log, whereas the my current webhost gives me lots of data on a range of things including the exact urls that are referencing the site images, how many times they've been served etc.

Submitted by Pantmonger on Wed, 03/08/05 - 5:08 PMPermalink

I feared that would be the case, but thanks for the info.

Pantmonger

Posted by souri on
Forum
tsumea

I am kinda getting sick of other websites, blogs, and what-not sourcing images from this site. The problem here is that they're embedding the images from this site into theirs, so Sumea's server works doubly hard because it has to provide images for their visitors. This isn't proper internet ettiquette and, unfortunately, there is a tonne of it happening, so I'm taking measures into my own hands.

This thread will be the "Do not embed Sumea's images" thread, and I will post about places that have been thieving Sumea's bandwidth. The catch is that I will be replacing the images that they are using on Sumea with something else. Example:

Ozedood has created a [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/sprofilepic.asp?pic=4_ssoldier.jpg&id=4&news=372"]really fab soldier drawing here[/url]. Unfortunately, this blogger is using the soldier picture from Sumea for his website. I've renamed the soldier picture to something else for Ozedood so his journal entry is fine, and I've put in its place a pic of some old guy wearing a Walmart plastic bag. [url="http://www.crushspot.com/profile.php?u=Carolinacrunk25"]You can see the changes here[/url]. Please make note of the matching sideway wearing cap!

(more to follow)

Submitted by souri on Sun, 26/06/05 - 4:31 PMPermalink

Well, there you go, that was quick. He's not using the image anymore. [:D]

Submitted by J I Styles on Mon, 27/06/05 - 1:51 AMPermalink

ooooooh lovely concept there souri -- practical and sneakily nasty [:)]

I feel bad about it, but it makes me kinda want more idiots to steal bandwidth! Just to enjoy more of the funny pics you replace it with [:D]

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 27/06/05 - 4:15 AMPermalink

lol thats brilliant, look forward to seeing more replaced pictures :P

Submitted by Anuxinamoon on Mon, 27/06/05 - 10:15 AMPermalink

quote: HEY WATS UP CRUSH SPOT, THIS YOU MAN ALEX REPPIN NC. IMMA TELL YALL A LIL BIT ABOUT ME. FURST MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE IS TO BE A RECORDING ARTIST.

I think my IQ dropped 3 points after reading that. [:x]

Pitty I didn't get to see the plastic bag guy, That would have been really funny [:D]

Submitted by redwyre on Mon, 27/06/05 - 11:28 AMPermalink

next time take a screenie Souri!

What about some kind of link prevention?

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 27/06/05 - 11:17 PMPermalink

well... this is more fun then link prevention ;)

Submitted by souri on Thu, 30/06/05 - 8:30 AMPermalink

Well, if you can imagine [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/simages2/4_soldierL.jpg"]this picture[/url] being smack in the middle of his blog (instead of that pencil drawing he has now), then that's pretty much it.

There's about 5 or so more sites and forums embedding Sumea's images (and probably countless others, but they've disappeared from my logs since they're from old blog entries/forum posts that are no longer visited, but they're still there).

Anyway, [url="http://www.rottemusen.1go.dk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=242"]this guy[/url] is using Anuxinamoon's avatar on Sumea for his avatar for forum posts. So, for every visitor that sees his messages on that board, Sumea has to serve that image. He's definately next.

Submitted by Anuxinamoon on Thu, 30/06/05 - 1:18 PMPermalink

How dare he steal my avatar! Whats even worse; I can't understand what he's saying! [:x]

Oh by the way, I cracked up when I saw the walmart guy!!! Haha! That picture is classic! Good job Souri! [:D]

Submitted by 3DArty on Thu, 30/06/05 - 5:20 PMPermalink

Me been bad sorry Souri,I had no ider that it would stuff up the server has been fix. now that I know what is dose.:(

Submitted by MoonUnit on Thu, 30/06/05 - 9:04 PMPermalink

i think hes just saying that he was also linking to this site, but hes fixed that now. hey can we run a suggestion box for what to replace it with? lol or better make another sumea quick activity for the replacement image XD

Submitted by Jacana on Fri, 01/07/05 - 5:02 AMPermalink

Maybe when Souri is lacking a new poll it could be the poll of what picture to use next?

My vote is on the Hasslehoff pic with the puppy for the next guy!

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Sun, 24/07/05 - 8:56 AMPermalink

That's the most magical elf I've ever seen, good job Souri. :)

Submitted by J I Styles on Sun, 24/07/05 - 7:40 PMPermalink

oh man, Souri... you have to put up a dedicated main page section for this [:)] just too good not to!

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 25/07/05 - 12:12 AMPermalink

hahaha! great stuff :)

Submitted by redwyre on Thu, 28/07/05 - 2:59 AMPermalink

I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, great work Souri!

Submitted by souri on Sun, 31/07/05 - 11:30 PMPermalink

This guy used the Destroy All Humans screenshots on Sumea to sell it on Ebay...

Before:
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730232823_DAH1.gif[/img]

After: Here's a human that's worth destroying (please note, this image is a tiny tiny little bit disturbing)...
[url="http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730232841_DAH2.jpg"]DAH2.jpg[/url]
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5221798903&category=2

Submitted by souri on Sun, 31/07/05 - 11:58 PMPermalink

Someone was using [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/sprofilepic.asp?pic=335_monster_finalizedd.jpg&…"]Openanewworld's pic[/url] in their forum..

Before:
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730235624_monster1.jpg…]

After (ok, I thought last pic was funny so I reused it again this time.)
[url="http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005730235652_monster2.jpg"]monster2.jpg[/url]
51.09 KB

http://www.etownravepage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17271

Submitted by MoonUnit on Mon, 01/08/05 - 12:15 AMPermalink

oh man this is tops, if anyone makes "omg wtf" remarks we need to see that too :P

Submitted by souri on Wed, 03/08/05 - 1:24 AMPermalink

Ok, I've realised that this problem is really going to get compounded when I open up the journals, and I doubt that I can keep on doing this every time an image is embedded from Sumea, so I think I will be simply renaming the images directory every few months and adjusting the site's code each time.

Submitted by Pantmonger on Wed, 03/08/05 - 5:04 AMPermalink

Out of interest how do you go about back tracking those bandwidth stealing images. The logs provided by my service provider let me know which site is responsible for the leaching and how much, but not the specific image or the specific location on the offending site.

Pantmonger

Submitted by souri on Wed, 03/08/05 - 11:09 AMPermalink

My logs are pretty comprehensive. It just depends on what software your webhosts are using. My previous cheaper/smaller webhost had a pretty simple log, whereas the my current webhost gives me lots of data on a range of things including the exact urls that are referencing the site images, how many times they've been served etc.

Submitted by Pantmonger on Wed, 03/08/05 - 5:08 PMPermalink

I feared that would be the case, but thanks for the info.

Pantmonger