Whether or not HuffPo’s Max Blumenthal is an oxygen thief is up for debate, but his status as a bandwidth thief is indisputable. Not once, not twice, but three times now he’s been caught at it – and oddly, public shaming seems to have no effect on him. Lefty pundits often express a sense of entitlement to other people’s property, but they generally restrict themselves to trying to take it via government fiat. It’s rare to seem them steal it directly, but Blumenthal seems unable to stop stealing other people’s bandwidth by embedding images on their servers into his hysterical diatribes. Consequently, every time the user loads the page on the Huffington Post which contains Blumenthal’s post, the other blogger’s bandwidth gets dinged for the image load.
Just as the last two times he did it, Blumenthal’s victim fought back by exchanging the image Blumenthal hotlinked with an offensive one. Click the clown to see his victim’s retaliation.
By the way, HuffPo took in $15 million from investors in 2008.
If this is something that really bothers website owners, it seems like there oughta be some more efficient way of guarding against it.
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There is a way of guarding against it, if your host permits it… but aside from that it’s really just obnoxious and discourteous. A big site like HuffPo should not be in the practice of leeching resources from smaller bloggers but this is the fourth time they’ve done it – 3 offenses by Blumenthal and one from Ariana herself. They’ve been told, repeatedly, they’ve been shamed, repeatedly… they just don’t care. If it was worth it to me to to actually read Blumenthal’s crappy posts I could probably go back and find more instances than the ones other bloggers have pointed out.
LOL max got off lucky with merely an offensive word. My boss at web commerce network used to replace the picture with something extremely pornographic.
Joe Carter swapped some images on Max that declared his favorite interweb stops were the Family Research Council, this blog, and others. So my blog has been advertised on HuffPo, which I just find enormously amusing.