Why You Shouldn’t Leach Images

Posted by Justin on March 28, 2007
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Leaching images is a nasty habit. If you don’t know what leaching is - it’s when you put an image on your page, but pull it from another website. Kind of like the WordPress logo in most templates - it pulls directly from WordPress in case they change the logo later - it gets updated across the world.

Anyway, the John McCain camp decided to leach an image on their MySpace page. The owner found out and decided to teach them a lesson instead of just killing the pull or the image. He basically took a menu and turned it into a campaign policy message about Gay Marriage. Check it out on Newsvine. Boy, I’d hate to be the webmaster of that site…