Brion Vibber wrote:
This is not even *vaguely* legitimate. I've cut them off in the IP firewall on coronelli and browne, so they're no longer able to steal bandwidth on every page hit just to promote their referrer links.
Bravo!
As is well known, I advocate taking a fairly relaxed approach to "bandwidth thieves" who are framing our content, etc. I don't think it's good, but I think the better approach is usually going to be to contact them first and ask them to stop it, and try to get them on board with a technologically better (and more friendly to our pocketbook) method of reuse!
But as Brion says, this particular case is not even *vaguely* legitimate.
Good call.
--Jimbo