I probably could have handled this better

[karen_d]

A Spanish language Harry Potter fan site decided to hotlink one of my HP fabric pictures to use as the background for their blog. They got enough traffic that I noticed when I looked at my stats for last month. Did I try to contact them and ask them nicely to stop? No. Did I just pull down the picture so they'd get errors? No. I replaced the

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[athenais]

I think you handled it splendidly.

[library_lil]

Amen

[elevengirl]

I agree that you handled it wonderfully.

Someone decided last year to use one of my baby blankets (from the business site) in a holiday story she was writing in an LJ community. I found it, briefly thought of replacing it with a graphic that was unkind, then decided a dead link was enough. I renamed my picture for my own purposes, and kept an eye on my stats for further action.

Apparently she didn't come check her story again to notice the little empty box...there were 404s in my stats for several months afterward.