Email from an Hotlinking Bandwidth Theft

Filed in: Cute & Funny, Web Development — September 9th, 2008

 

While we try everything to avoid hotlinking to our images (read: bandwidth theft), there are some people do not realize that what they do is wrong, but threaten you to allow hotlinking!

email from an hotlinking bandwidth theft

P.S. The email is not for me, I got the screenshot via twitturly

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  • Hahaha.. that kind of people still exist aaa?
    ROTFLMAO hahaha
  • LcF
    er.. i updated it at after the image few days ago.. but still.. *shrug*
  • "Just for your information, the email is not for me, LiewCF. I found it on twitturly. :)"

    I think you should quote the source near the image, it's good netiquette to do so, just so that the owner won't be annoyed. Everyone's thinking the email is for you :P
  • Genius, I think the guy was having you on though.
  • silly e-mail....LOL :D
  • Reminds me of "A boy who cry wolf "
  • I think this fellow got problem.
    Took other's people picture some more want to sue people.

    Problem!
  • LcF,

    It is alright if you remove or change the locations of your images but if you discontinue LiewCF.com I will sue you. I don't hotlink to your images but I have been promoting your blog on my websites. If you deactivate it, I will be embarrassed and the SEs are not going to like it (dead url).

    According to WebsiteOutlook.com, you blog is worth $122,625.4 USD. To see the valuation go to http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.liewcf.com
  • LcF
    Just for your information, the email is not for me, LiewCF. I found it on twitturly. :)
  • Haha! This guy really know how to make a joke. Funny guy... :D
  • Ady
    But wait... by posting his email here he can charge you more. His lawyer will sue you with 2 charges. Get ready CF!

    LOL.

    "Moron of the year" award. I wonder how can we make it official.
  • Funny news!
  • SMD
    Funny. He will be nominated for moron of the year award. I am wondering what is your reply to him.
  • To be honest, I have seen this snapshot from some other site, similar if not exactly the same as what you have here.... :/
  • Funny and poor (for being ignorant) guy for writing the mail. Then again, there are all sort of people in this world and some can really stand out ! :=D
  • The funniest person on earth.... pity him lah, no need to sue him liew. Let him find the lawyer and do all the stupid job....
  • the email sounds silly. lawyer? sounds like he's doing the right thing.. omg..
  • Running a very popular music website which serves more than 1 million people a month since 5 years ago, I get lots of funny emails like this.
    some people ask us or threaten us to remove a specific set of music (rap e.g.) only because they don't like it or recently I got carbon copy of an email sent to the local music authorities from a visitor who had asked them to shut the website down because of a comment against his favorite artists.
    what makes it more funny is that the guy was only a high school student :))
    internet is a very strange environment.
  • Albert
    Where is this guy from? Stupid guy! Moron of the year. Digg this up!
  • yeah..let see who stupid..lol..it really funny./
  • Ady
    This is very funny indeed. Let him call his lawyer. He wants to sue you because you disallow hotlinking? Ha Ha! I want to see what lawyer he summons.
  • Bad guy!
  • really ridiculous...So funny...Steal people's image and bandwidth now even sue back people. He/She must be living in a upside down world...
  • Sham
    what the F?? that person is really are stupid, he stole ur bandwidth and now he wants to claim lawyer for his dirty stealing jobs? that's ridiculous! he think that liewcf.com is flickr la i think or deviantart. don't the person know about licensing images? OMG! i wanna kill that person!! please let me please!!!
  • Haha that's hilarious! I hope he does sue, so you can destroy him in court with his ridiculous defense. (Although I doubt there's any lawyer familiar with the ways of the internet who'd agree to be his counsel.)
  • max
    and no, he was like ... sincerely, hahaha ..
    seriously please call that lawyer .. looolz ..
    great post .. thnx ..
  • hahahah. I'd like to see him hire a lawyer for real. Maybe you should ignore him, and see how it unfolds.
  • LOL

    what is in that guy mind?
  • its says via twitturly, don think the letter is meant for Liew, yes, hotlinking is a problem for me as well. apart from .htacess, how do we go about stopping hotlinking? coz by using .htaccess, feedburner readers will have problems viewing the images,, right?
  • lol...! now world goes upside down
  • This is ridiculous...he is the thief and now want to threaten the owner with a lawyer, LOL....
  • Walauweh. Like this oso can, meh? Hahaha!
  • Ha3. Lol... We still have this guy on earth ah?
  • :) huhuhu.. This person using your badwitch.. Then? What a u next step.. How ever i also use you pic. but not ur badwitch.. Hope I will not being sue.. :)
  • Eugene
    That's hilarious, i hope that he is not doing internet biz, not sure if he knows how to spell Internet.
  • Eugene
    That's hilarious, i bet this guy can't even spell bandwidth. You should forgive him, at least he take the initiative to write you such a long email.

    I wondering what business he is doing, hope that it is not Internet biz. I bet there is be something to just prevent him from hotlinkng you.
  • I think you should sue him for taking pictures from your site without your concern. :) (and bandwith theft ;) )
  • ungrateful brat!
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