Creating Kris ~ a young mom blogs…

pieces of me…

so, normally when I see someone “wearing” one of my blinkies or something like that, I think “cool!” ’cause it’s neat to see how things you make can wind their way around the web.

but sometimes, it’s more like “hey! do people not know that stealing someone’s bandwidth without permission is not so nice?” even if they don’t have personal experience hosting websites (and being aware that some hosts charge you $$$ for the bandwidth you use above and beyond your account’s limits!), there are enough sites out there that caution against direct-linking.

Issue #1: Some of my breastfeeding blinkies that were previously on YM were being hot-linked a bunch of places, especially here where a whole batch were added to a forum thread. And even though BlinkieMommies now has those blinkies available for direct linking, YM never did and I don’t want to share any of YM’s bandwidth. So my smart hubby updated the .gif files to show a “this blinkie has been moved to BlinkieMommies.com” blinkie when someone is trying to direct-link there.

Issue #2: So even though it’s been 7 years since I lost angel and got a tattoo of a heart and angel wings, it’s still something moms are going through and tattoos are still a popular way to remember and honour the lives of our little angel babies. And I appreciate that moms are looking for ideas. That being said, I’d rather not see a picture of my hip “out there” on the web. So I’ve added a copyright message to the pics and hopefully next time someone would like to pass along that idea, they will link to me instead.

I don’t want to be overly controlling or anything (and stamping a © on everything in sight) but it just stings a little to work hard on something, have an idea, do something creative, make some art, etc. and have that taken away when you put it out there.

It’s like that cliché situation at the office when your co-worker steals your idea and takes credit when the boss says “that looks nice!”.