Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:53:12 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: When Cuteness Runs Amok
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Most Remarkably, Mike B. wrote:
>Who enjoys and overly paranoid anti-bandwidth theft notice???

You haven't lived until you've had people linking your images into their
own sites, without even attribution.  This is done a lot by people who
either can't be bothered to ask permission and post their own copies of
stuff, or are using free sites with low bandwidth allowances, or (gasp!)
are actually plagiarizing your work and calling it their own.  Extremely
annoying to have to pay for that indulgence.  The bandwidth theft notice is
not paranoia, it's retribution for ongoing abuse.  If nothing else, it
tends to expose the true nature of the thief.

Barry