Having Fun with Hotlinkers

[mbarrick]

I was watching the referrer log on my server today while testing something for work and happened to see that someone had hotlinked one of my pictures on newyork.craiglist.org. Some putz realtor was using a photo I made of the view of Downtown from the South Street Seaport to sell an apartment. People who hotlink should realise how easy it is to redirect to anything else...

The ad, with my image:

The ad, redirected to a lovely picture of the Lower East Side at its spectacular mid-1970's low-point:

Comments

[opium.livejournal.com]

hahahaha

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!!! I LOVE THIS!

[lilitha.livejournal.com]

This made me giddy with glee!

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

PRICELESS! That just totally made my day!

[heevoling.livejournal.com]

hah that is awesome
yay for justice served

btw, what, exactly, are "condo-like finishes"? and, "close to all subways" -- i realize i'm a prisoner of a relentless literalism, but it would be quite the hike to the nearest L or 7 stop, or the G, the B, the D, the N, the Q...

p.s.

[heevoling.livejournal.com]

i just showed my boss. this made her day :)

Re: p.s.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

:-)

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

to valerian: please pardon out brashness.

to mr barrick: we love you.

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

Owned :)

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i kind of like the retro look of the lower east side myself...wonder how many she'll sell now...ha ha...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

That rocks.

[annamaryse.livejournal.com]

you rock

[pjollimore.livejournal.com]

dude... are you going to ever add me again? :P I cancelled my majest account.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I did, like, um, yesterday. Or maybe the day before.

[pjollimore.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you did... Ok, let me go and find out who it was so I can give them crap next :D

[tricksterpants.livejournal.com]

SO GOOD!! Like, Teen Girl Squad good! I'm impressed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_darkpixie_/]

Hehehehehehehe

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Best post EVER!!! ^_^

[the-arioch.livejournal.com]

that was cruel :-)))

yet this lefts out two questions:

1) how many visitors were before and after picture substitution ?
2) how soon webmasters realised sunstitution and fixed the ad

PS: most cruel of course would be to make picture IP-dependant, so that webmasters from craigslist.com still saw 1st picture, but al their clients saw substituted one :-)