The Cost of Freedom
September 19, 2007Apologies for the missing images in some posts. I recently signed up with a local provider that offered a free 50 megs of web space as a sort of “Giving back to the community” kind of deal. I was intending to use most of the space for a portfolio of photographs and somewhere to park my CV. In the mean time I used it to host some images for this blog.
I read their fine print and saw nothing that said I couldn’t link to images from outside; there were just the usual provisos about offensive and copy-write material and massive traffic loads.
So, maybe I’m being punished for being cheeky, or, maybe the service is just plain broken.
My actual ISP also has a “Giving back to the community” thing. Even though I pay them, the measly 10 megs of space that they give me is regarded as a free gift. So, when it breaks down and I complain, the response is basically in the vein of: Seeing as how the web space service is free, you can’t expect us to give it any sort of priority when it breaks…
Car makers don’t advertise that the car comes with a free engine (not covered by warranty). There’d be an outrage.
End of grizzle.
