As part of my signature on a few forums I post on regularly, I use a bar depicting my use of Firefox 3, known as Minefield shown here.



Some forum users decided they wanted to use it for their signature too. Thats just fine with me, I don't care one iota. However they could show the courtesy of copying the image to their computer or server first, instead of stealing my bandwidth by linking to my site.

After cordially suggesting they desist and copy the file, then waiting half a day for the links to be removed, I decided to have a bit of fun. First I made a duplicate of the image under a new name, and used the new name for my signature on the 4 forums I post on.

Next I uploaded the image below under the name of the original filename that was causing my bandwidth to be stolen.



It will be fun waiting for a reaction from those using my bandwidth for their signature, not to mention heckling that they might get from other forumites. Oh! and by the way, I could have been a lot meaner just by using a nasty image. Something much more embarrassing as well as off color comes to mind, but I will keep it to myself.