Lazy douchebags link directly to other webservers’ images, leeching their bandwidth instead of serving up their own copy of the image.  We now have protection against this at the server level.  Hotlinking douchebags will get this image plastered all over their pages, instead of what they were hoping to rip off:

If I really wanted to be obnoxious, I could use Mr. Goatse.cx instead of Captain Picard, but that’d be overkill. (Don’t know about Goatse.cx? You could google it, but fair warning: what has been seen cannot be unseen.)

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