{"id":576,"date":"2007-05-18T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/05\/18\/bandwidth-thieves\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:09:08","slug":"bandwidth-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/05\/18\/bandwidth-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandwidth thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I went on a trip to Barcelona and posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2004\/07\/03\/pictures-from-barcelona\/\">pictures<\/a>, including a panorama of the Sagrada Familia church:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Barcelona04\/SagradaFamiliaTall_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Barcelona04\/SagradaFamiliaTall_t.jpg\" title=\"Church of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona\" alt=\"View of the towers of the Sagrada Familia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That picture ended up in Google image search among others and lots of non-technical bloggers seem to have chosen to use it if they want a picture from Barcelona.  The only problem is that they don&#8217;t save it to their own website, they link to the copy on my site.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo make matters worse they usually display it at thumbnail size by telling the browser to resize it.  So what happens is that the end-user&#8217;s browser downloads a huge picture and then resizes it to show it on the screen.  This download comes from my web host and uses up bandwidth, which is a finite resource and costs money if I use too much.<\/p>\n<p>OK, non-technical people might not realise the problem, so I usually try to contact them and suggest that they use the thumbnail-size version instead.  Most of them ignore me.<\/p>\n<p>What is really annoying and has nothing to do with technical knowledge is that most of them don&#8217;t even credit me.  They use my picture and then effectively pass it off as their own.  On the right-hand side of these pages is a little copyright notice.  In general I&#8217;m happy for people to use my pictures but you <strong>must<\/strong> ask me or you&#8217;re breaking copyright law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I went on a trip to Barcelona and posted some pictures, including a panorama of the Sagrada Familia church: That picture ended up in Google image search among others and lots of non-technical bloggers seem to have chosen to use it if they want a picture from Barcelona. The only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}