Sunday, November 29, 2009

Is it wrong to goatsee the innocent?

Read the article here: http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/MySpace_...



(in the following goatsee is a codeword for g-o-a-t-s-e, as apparently it is officially a bad word for yahoo)



If you're lazy, I'll summarize, a myspace template started hotlinking an image someone owns, now, technically that could be construed as illegal, except the image is in a library availble to the public. The problem was, people would use the image as-is, not download and re-host, so it was eating up his bandwidth, and he had to do something about it...



In short, this led to over 25,000 myspace pageviews of goatsee, one of the lesser great horrors of the internet consisting of a man practicing the rare and forbidden art of anal-stretching...



So, thousands of people saw the inside of a man's rectum (trust me, not really pretty), because people don't know what financial harm their image-linking could do...



So what are the opinions out there, was the goatseing hilarious? evil? noble?



Is it wrong to goatsee the innocent?

That's pretty funny, but a little overboard. Instead of doing that, he could have created an image that said something along the lines of "I'm an image theif".



Considering that the people who fell prey to this actually stole the image and used it illegally, there is nothing they can do to rectum, i mean, rectify it...



Is it wrong to goatsee the innocent?

Huh?



Is it wrong to goatsee the innocent?

Definately hilarious. I wouldn't say noble, but bandwith stealers deserve what they get.

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