Google Reader as a Security Device

By on January 21, 2008 in Tech

So this dude grabs a photo of Sooty, the amazing guinea pig, right off my Err Bear Music page, uses my bandwidth to display it on his page, with no attribution (and no link to my song about said guinea pig from whence the photo came) and, on top of all of that, he gets link love from me in my Recent Inbound Links box (in the right column).

You have to love the internet.

So not only is Google Reader now serving me my feeds and you my inbound links and recent comment boxes, it’s also serving as my bandwidth watchdog.

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  • http://blog.rfquerin.org/ rfquerin

    Hey Kent,I’ve read many a story about someone p.o’d about deep-linked image use. They always seem to either replace their local image with a goatse or some sort of scornful message so that the person pseudo-stealing it will be suitably embarrassed on their own site and replace it. Are you going to take the high-road on this one?;)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/05268190745887737505 Kent

    Yeah, I’ll take the high road. I’m not really mad about it- I just think he should have attributed it or linked to the song page.

  • Bryan Fantana

    Two quick comments:1. I found the image of Sooty in question through Google Images, which pretty much means I didn’t bother at all to look at your site. My apologizes.2. I don’t really give a damn about the number of visits on my blog. I would probably cry if I knew how low it was.