The following list of assorted internet scoundrels are illegally stealing bandwidth by hotlinking to files at darwen.us.

Whenever I catch someone stealing bandwidth (usually by hotlinking images) I update my code so that they get this obnoxious graphic instead of the image they are trying to steal. Sometimes I get creative and give them a custom replacement graphic. If it's a myspacer, it's often this graphic.

The list of offending sites, along with my commentary, are to follow.

The newer instances of theft are toward the top of the list.

I will append and update this list whenever I notice changes.

• HorrorTeam BG... They were hotlinking a graphic from my Exorcist III review at film geeks. Now, they have a kid and a Care Bear.



• ESPN Fantasy Football: Bisquits And Mustard... Bisquits and Mustard was stealing bandwith to jack a graphic from film geeks Action Figure Theater as his avatar. I had a lot of fun making a new avatar for him. Just in case he's changed it and you'd like to see the difference, here's a screengrab of his page with the graphic he was steeling and here it is with the graphic I just came up with for him. See, if he'd just put the graphic on his own server space, all would have been groovy.




• Name Our Board Forum... Liberal dirt-bag stealing bandwith to post a picture of KKK dirtbags. Dirtbags all around!




• Liberal Underground... Of course I got a lot of joy out of killing this instance of bandwidth theft. Somebody was hotlinking to a picture I posted of Sarah Gilbert.



• Roller Coaster Tycoon News... A while back I posted some screen grabs from one of my Roller Coaster Tycoon games. Someone took them and linked to them as though they were his own. Not anymore.



• MySpace Cadet: Baller For Life Yo... Steal my bandwidth and, when I find you, the replacement graphic is so big that it'll mess up your whole comments section. Oh, well. Them's the breaks.



• MySpace Cadet: Lillee... Her comments section is now all funky because someone stole bandwith. Oh, well. Learn to police your pages, people.



• Rotten Eggs Message Board... This is a message thread about the perfect place to hide marijuana. The poster hotlinked to an image on our server of a Carmex tub. Since this one struck me as really stupid, I couldn't resist customizing the graphic a bit. I can't wait to (hopefully) hear from the ticked-off pot-head.



• Point And Click Message Board... It's a message board in spanish. It used to contain, in one of the message responses, a darwen.us hotlinked picture from Natural Born Killers. That is, until I natural-born killed it.



• Partykel.de... I can't even really tell what this is. A message board, I guess. Danish? Maybe. Stealing my graphics? No more.



• Blogger: Uranus... This blog was stealing an image of mine to give props to Tia. I hope Tia enjoys a graphic featuring text about bandwidth theft..



• Sitcoms On Line: Message Board... This post features a host of images from a Sara Gilbert fan. I like Sara Gilbert, too. I once posted a picture of her. But I didn't steal bandwidth to do it.



• Chat 4 Chat: Arabic... This is a forum in a different language. Arabic? Maybe? I really don't know. I just know they ain't stealing the image that they thought they were stealing from me noooooooooo more.



• MySpace-Cadet Sarah E... This one really isn't Sarah's fault... somebody stole my bandwidth and posted a link in her forum. Hopefully, she'll police her forums a bit and remove the illegal hotlinks.

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Former Offenders

Here's a list of... well, former offenders. People who are no longer stealing my bandwidth. I no longer want to brand them as thieves, but I do want to continue to mock them. Consider their names stricken from my S-List.

• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: The Filthiest Person Alive...The name pretty much says it all, don't you think? He's using my stolen graphic as his background. Among the images you'll find tossed into the catastrophe that he calls a webpage, you'll find a faked animated .gif of David Hasselhoff dancing as a male stripper... and another animated .gif that says (and demonstrates) that MySpace makes him want to punch babies. Just looking at some of these MySpace pages makes me want to go take a hot shower. Update: The "Filthiest Person Alive" has taken the time to try to make his page more readable and less of a strain on the eye. Yay.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Timtastic... along with the graphic he's stealing from me, this Brit has posted a ton of pictures of people that I don't know, don't care about, and don't want to know anything about. Just like him.



• Former Offender...MySpace-Cadet: Eric the Esoteric... A better name for this page would be Eric the MESSoteric. I don't know if I've ever seen a worse looking webpage. It looks like it was thrown together by a blind, retarded monkey. I've noticed that this seems to be a trend among MySpacers... they seem incapable of even considering the idea that a website should be pleasing to the eye. They just throw code together like kids throwing toys into a toybox. I suppose that should be expected; as I understand it, the whole point of MySpace is to meet up with random, vacuous strangers and have random, meaningless sex. So who really cares what your page looks like, right? Update: Eric has actually cleaned his page up some. It is now possible to look at it without being stricken blind.



• Former Offender... Teenage Wasteland... This page is mostly in Spanish. Some of it is in English. He's got a butload of stolen hotlinked images... but he doesn't have one from darwen.us anymore.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Ignacio... a seventeen year old with a graphic he's stolen from me and picture of Steve Buscemi. Among his personal details, you'll find the following information: "I don't want kids.". Well, good. At least there's that. Update: When this kid took down the link that was stealing my bandwidth, he replaced it with this text: "Books: Apparently, linking pictures from google makes me a bandwidth thief. I read books on stealing bandwidth." Gotta give him credit, the kid has a good sense of humor about it. Hopefully, he learned his lesson, too.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: The VLAD Doctor... I don't think this fella really has a license to practice medicine. One of his stolen images (this one stolen from someone else) features a picture of Mark Twain with the following quote: "I am no fan of war.". Wow. Who knew that Mark Twain strongly disliked the the band that recorded the hit song "Low Rider"?



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Impale Impaling Impaled... Look, a MySpace-Case who can conjugate! I'm impressed with his language skills. In his about me self description, he says the following about himself: "I complain a lot and I listen to shitty music. Lets talk.". Oh, if only I had the chance to sit and learn about life at his feet. You'll find the code he's stealing at the bottom of his People I'd Like To Meet scrolling list.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Y Helo Thar... a sixteen year old girl from Florida. She likes Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Brand New... and she considers Bill Cosby to be her hero. I'd probably like this kid if she wasn't a bandwidth thief.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Flutter By... her background is an anime image of a scantily clad fairy-type-chick. She is apparently possessed by a 14 year old boy.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: George... I guess the way it works is that you try to give people an idea of who you are by throwing together a bunch of images of people and things you're interested in. You know, that way, you don't have to try to put together a coherent sentence or express a complete idea with words.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet... I can't even tell what this guy's name is supposed to be. His personal picture (I suppose) is a snapshot of him and someone else sitting on the tailgate of a truck in front of a porno video store. A tailgate party at a porn store? Sure, what the hell.



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Mel's Hideaway... Mel seems to be French. Mel also seems to be a bandwidth thief. Hmmm. A Frenchman relying on an American do do the work for them for free. Not much has changed since the 40's, huh?



• Former Offender... MySpace-Cadet: Dogstyle...He's a 40 year old male from California, he's a taurus, a college graduate, a proud parent, and a bandwidth thief.