If you're not up to date on my little personal war against MySpace, you might want to read over some of the previous day's posts. Or, you can settle for the Readers Digest version, which is as follows:

Point One: This is a picture of the MySpace users who have been stealing my bandwidth:

Point Two: This is a picture of me:

So now, on with the latest.

• I noticed the other day that a French girl had been jacking my bandwidth for an image from a Tim Burton movie. I changed the code so it directed the bandwidth she was stealing to this image:
  

  

  
  But then I noticed that a a number of people were jacking that same image, and that most of them weren't French. So I changed the code again to my all-purpose MySpace smartbomb image, which, of course, is this:
  

  

  
  You'll now see that banner popping up at pages such as this one and this one. Sometimes they're in the message threads, so if you really want to see it, you might have to dig around a bit.




• I also noticed that an image of mine was being jacked by a girl who was a big supporter of PETA. So I changed that image to this one:
  

  

  
  But then I noticed that it was popping up at lots of different MySpace sites, too... and it crossed my mind that some of them might actually be antiPETA and might enjoy the new banner. Well, I can't have that. So I changed that image to the smartbomb banner, too.

Striking back at bandwidth thieves is downright addictive.

• I found a message board where a guy had jacked an image of a musician from my server space. He's got the smartbomb posted there now, too. The irony is that he makes an anti-MySpace remark during his post. This message on the board is so old it's likely that nobody will ever see it again anyway.... but just in case... just in case...



• I found another old message on a board where some guy was swiping my Sandman image from a post at film geeks. It seems like lots of people like to swipe stuff to post on message boards. Well, that guy isn't stealing what he think's he's stealing anymore. And neither is this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy.



• Here's one where someone stole bandwidth from an image on Wendy's blog. They took her lip balm image. They aren't taking it anymore.
  
  
• This person has one of my images somewhere on her website... but I decided not to seek it out and alter it simply because I liked her anti-abortion banner. I guess I do make exceptions. Hey, double-standards are allowed when you're dishing out your own bandwidth.



• Now this one I can't figure out at all. Some AOLer has my whole blog in an embedded window at their AOL personal page. Why?

It's safe to say that I'll be using the "MySpace smartbomb" banner as a replacement for EVERY bit of code that a MySpace-Cadet jacks from me from now on. It's a good multi-purpose banner, and I'm sure it'll accomplish my goal regardless of who ends up displaying it through bandwidth theft.