I'm disgusted at the response, and would have expected much better behaviour from the owner of an ISP.
Despite the denial, he knows quite well what
hotlinking is fully aware of the circumstances.
This had been brought to his attention on the 25th of Feb, and by the time it came to my attention on the 27th it was still displaying the images without credit to the original source as can be proved from captured image of
google cache 26 Feb 2010 20:17:07 GMT.
The crux of the matter was that he was displaying images from another site without proper credit or permission. How many people looking at that site notice the http headers and know where the images really come from?
When confronted with this he goes into petty attack mode. I am not sure what he means about direct quotes copied from the A+A status page.. its certainly not anything that Ive done, as I will always give a reference to the source. After a quick look, the item which I assume he is complaining about is walters post
here which was discussing the AAISP SS page in a positive light and made it fairly clear that it was an article on the aasip site without any attempt to hide the original author.
All we were asking for was the article to carry proper acknowledgement of the image sources.. wouldnt have been too hard would it?
