I am sad I have to write this here, but the email she put in does not work.
And maybe it helps other people to understand.
Today I got this email:
Name: susie
E-mail: bigsister20@gmail.com
URL: URL
Comments: U state that this is a site for Johnny Depp but wont let other people show the work we thought was wonderful that you are doing.. Tell me selfish do you have permission from him to use his picture’s. No I don’t think so, so why do you make a butt out of yourself by saying that we who take one picture are internet thieves. You are the actual thief , and a Bi*** for not sharing.. take this site and shove it, I bet me and my daughter are bigger fans than you anyways…. BLAH
Please read my answer, Susie:
Hello Susie,
let me explain this, please read till the end and you’ll understand:
I do not say, that those who take the pictures are thieves. Feel free to grab them all. I myself asked for every single one, but only those posting them in boards. I am one of those saying, that every pic available should be allowed to be used by every fan in the world. I did not pay for them, and I do not own them. The photographers do.
But what I paid for is the WEBSPACE.
I am a student and have 5 siblings, so my parents cannot give much money to me. I spend my whole money for the webspace and the domains, because this is my “hobby”.
Now included is a certain amount of “bandwidth”. That means, when you visit my site and the index site is 100KB big, and 10 people do this, 1MB bandwidth is gone from the bandwidth I have. That’s OK. They visit jdorg and they are thankful and it is my hobby and people pay much money for their hobbies.
But now there are other people, who take a 100KB pic and just copy the URL of the image, and include it to their own site. And 10 people visit your site and again 1MB bandwidth of the bandwidth I paid for is gone. BUT although they not even visited this site.
So you stole the BANDWIDTH from me.
And this is nothing I thought is not nice and that’s why I forbid it, it is FORBIDDEN in the USA.
And if everybody direct links the images of my site, I will soon have to close it , because I cannot pay the bandwidth anymore.
And talking of 1MB above, I installed a script to find out who hotlinks me and found out I have 100MB bandwidth stolen the DAY. This makes 3GB bandwidth the month, and 1GB costs 2$, this means, people steal 6$ the month from me.
So. Come to this site, save all the pics on your harddrive, upload them to YOUR OWN webspace and include them wherever you want.
Then everything is OK.
And, instead of putting up that image, I can in the future just tell your host that you are hotlinking, which is illegal and he will close your site. But I thought, you’d prefer an image which tells you what you’re doing wrong than having the whole site closed.
btw. I offer that people hotlink my images in some forums and boards, so I am far more unselfish than other sites.
And I think, it is not nice to claim someone you do not know a bitch, although you obviously do illegal things and I just try to go the nice way and let your site not being close.
It is the PURPOSE of johnny-depp.org to share all those pics to Johnny’s fans. That’s why I made it. By this I share my whole money and all my free time with you.
I just cannot pay all the illegal hotlinking of every fan, because up to now only ONE nice person was so kind to share a bit of her money and donate some dollars. In three years. Will you pay the dollars back to me, which you have stolen by stealing my bandwidth? So who’s not sharing?
Sincerly, Martina.
