Bandwidth thief caught in the act
The Story:
The original author of a blog post entitled ‘Laptop Security‘ was having a little browse through his web stats and came across a weird ‘referral’ link from a blog. When investigated further, it turns out the ‘referring’ blog in question was directly linking back to a picture on his blog, and this was slightly skewing his web hit stats as a result.
Rather than just change the name of the picture (which he did btw), he decided to amend the linked-to picture so that anyone doing the same would get an amended version of it, plus he would have a little fun with the offending blog’s owner.
The result is quite nice, and I wonder how long before the offending party checks his own stats and finds out about this? 
A Screenshot:
This screenshot is of the offending site, with the ‘amended’ pic displayed.
For those of you who may not have a great resolution or maybe cannot see this clearly, here is a link to a larger resolution pic.
The links:
Now, lets see how long the guy takes to notice this amended picture. Please comment below if you see it changed, so we can test this. The original ‘amendment’ was made just under 24 hours ago, so we will say 1am 22/07/2008 GMT.
The bandwidth nabber here
The original article link here
Many thanks to Mark for sharing this story with us.
