I seldom look at my stats, but for some reason, today I looked at my referrer logs. Those are the stats that show where people are coming from, and they also show when people are accessing images from my server. I discovered two instances. Someone was using an image to illustrate an eBay auction, and someone else was using one of my images as their icon on a message board. I replaced both of the images on my server with this one:

It gave me great pleasure to reload both of those pages and see my "stolen" image come up. Is that petty? Maybe. It's not a huge deal, but anyone who's savvy enough to know how to access an image off of someone else's server is undoubtedly also savvy enough to know that it's theft. I started to write emails to both of them, but decided not to. I was going to say, "If you have to steal, just go ahead and steal the image itself, don't steal my bandwidth," but I figured it would be lost energy. It was a lot more fun replacing the image. I think I showed great restraint, actually. I could have replaced them with something a lot worse.