HP Icon-Stealing Wank!
hp_freak2 at xanga.com (WARNING: DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK IF YOU'RE ON DIAL-UP. IT IS EXTREMELY GRAPHICS-INTENSIVE) has apparently decided to hotlink every single HP icon that other people have made on their site.

This does not sit well with the icon-makers:

WHAT THE HELL? YOU'RE TAKING PEOPLE'S HARD WORK AND CLAIMING IT AS YOURS?! STEALING FROM LJ HP ICON COMMUNITIES, PSH. you're pathetic.

I'll even leave you a link where you can see how much you could be fined if just 1 of these icon makers chose to prosecute you.

IM goign to advise EVERYONE who makes Icons o copyright them. For, it's bandwidth stealing, and copyright infringement. And guess what, I KNOW some of those icons are copyrighted. And guess what my phone is next t ome and I shall be calling authorities in the next week.

[Yay! Icon copyright police! Forget those pesky original copyrighted photos you "stole" so you could make your "original" icon... /snide commentary]

I'm glad people are replacing their icons with ones that say what a loser you are. I'm particuarly fond of the porn one.

Some have even gone so far as to replace their icons with new ones featuring pithy little phrases, like:

I'm a foal [sic], loathsome, evil little cockroach, who has been stealing icons and claiming them as my own!

This icon ran away because the fucker who postedthis stole it claiming it was her's [sic]

P.S. - Should I be as amused as I am about the phrase "plantform [sic] 9 3/4" at the top of the page?

ETA: Here are some more comments on hp_freak2's LJ.

But wait, there's more:

An "apology" from hp_freak2 at the hp_icons comm

Go fck your mamma if you're SO bored

Aaaaaand the site's been shut down for going against Xanga's TOU.