[rdescartes]

One of my friends used the same strategy to block DDOS from China : just put "Falun Gong" on there and it was resolved instantly.

[himinlomax]

I remember someone doing that with the goatse picture. The hotlinker was pissed and all sorts of amusing drama ensued.

[daveslash]

That was exactly how I learned what goatse was. My MySpace page was all decked out with images that I was hotlinking from some server... The server owner realized this and replaced all the images with Goatse. One day a friend goes "Hey... uh, what's up with your MySpace page... that's pretty gross". So I went to log in: Goastse. Goastse everywhere (gestures with hand). And my eyes were never the same again ಠ_ಠ

Edit: grammar.

[MisterTea]

That was popular in the early ebay days when you had to host your own images. A friend had someone selling similar items using his image links. So he changed the images to goatse. Problem solved.

[gipp]

The Tribalwar forums did this to CNN after 9/11, CNN had hotlinked one of those images where people were trying to pick out "demon faces" in the smoke

[panpanna]

According to the article IPs downloading this image come mostly from India.

So replace it with the pakistani flag to solve the problem (or start WW3)

[thaumasiotes]

> One of my friends used the same strategy to block DDOS from China : just put "Falun Gong" on there and it was resolved instantly.

...because attacks from China are horrified at the thought of disrupting Falun Gong?

[dspillett]

Because it is one of the things that will get you added to the blocklists that form part of the Great Firewall of China.

It won't stop a hacker who is probably bypassing parts of that anyway, but the more casual requests such as those caused by deep linking will generally stop getting through.