Uh, what are you talking about Phantast? By paying my ISP every month, I am paying for the use of their services, including bandwidth. Reasonably clueful ISPs know how to handle denial of service attacks, which is what bandwidth theft essentially is. If you put up a web site, it is your and your ISP's responsibility to pay for the bandwidth use. The ISP pays for its bandwidth through fees they charge their users. Are you suggesting that I should write over 200 checks to each individual web site I visit on a monthly basis? Somehow I think that model would fail and the Internet would come crashing down. Anyway, as I said originally--a clueful ISP can get rid of the bandwidth hog and contact the site admin of the offending host to resolve the situation. Usually these sorts of things are a mistake; people don't usually understand the consequences of linking from a popular site to another one.