And with the revolutionary hotlink countermeasure you get the satisfaction of rickrolling the people viewing sites that use your plugins – because obviously they’re to blame here. Assholes and their unknowing use of your bandwidth.

With a stupid one liner in your httpd config you don’t get any of that action. All you get are web developers wondering why when they link directly all they see is a comment saying not to link directly, or slightly better, a totally blank file.

That wouldn’t fun. As developers of plugins we should do everything we can, like build revolutionary hotlink countermeasures, to alienate the community of other developers who we’re building plugins for. I mean, if we help these guys, that’s less possible chance of fame and glory for us right? Why take that risk? No one has ever succeeded from building stuff and sharing it generously. Every single attempt has ended in utter failure.

So rock on with your revolutionary hotlink countermeasures!

Delete this bullshit.