That's a great point. If I choose to build a house downstream from a dam and it breaks, whatever the reason, am I supposed to blame someone else for the dam breaking and flooding my house? Most likely, I will have thought ahead and purchased insurance to cover the damages. So where I may not have fun per say, at least I'll know I did what I could to limit my liability for making a risky decison in the first place.
If you think about it everybody pays for bandwidth, don't people have to pay for the bandwidth to view your site?
If you want to protect yourself from overusage, throttle your user limit and your bandwith. You are responsible for those cost and you control the cost, not the people who visit your site.
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And Google has since removed it from thier index: http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/508-Shame-on-Google
That's a great point. If I choose to build a house downstream from a dam and it breaks, whatever the reason, am I supposed to blame someone else for the dam breaking and flooding my house? Most likely, I will have thought ahead and purchased insurance to cover the damages. So where I may not have fun per say, at least I'll know I did what I could to limit my liability for making a risky decison in the first place.
If you think about it everybody pays for bandwidth, don't people have to pay for the bandwidth to view your site? If you want to protect yourself from overusage, throttle your user limit and your bandwith. You are responsible for those cost and you control the cost, not the people who visit your site.