Confused confessions of a Bandwith Thief

I got redirected to this strange image the other day...

I thought that it was a REALLY OLD prank making me download that tiny redirect .gif so my internet usage would go up by 20kb (costing me a million dollars.. in 1994)

Not so!

I had a look around, and it turns out that it is an up-yours aimed at people who link images in their blogs, etc.

Ie: when i copy a picture from photobucket and paste it on my blog, which someone looks at, photobucket has to supply bandwith (Bandwith is the thing that costs money when you own a website, essentially rented server-time) to send the information, while my lazy, free blog merely has to retrieve it. 

So if people find out this is happening to them they can remove the image (it will disappear on your blog), Replace it with something else (this will appear on your blog) or use a mod to show all copied URLs as abuse, sad children or expressions of rage while keeping their image pristine and proprietary.

As a serial bandwidth steal-er, i can no longer plead idiocy, but i guess if i really actually care i will just take a screen-grab. Low resolution theft is much nicer, plus the original URL is in the browserbar in the picture. 

So thats how shit works apparently.