Comment 9 for bug 676370

Reading www.die.net, it's my impression that gtk-sunlight probably violates the terms of service by overloading the die.net server's bandwdth. It looks to me as if the die.net guy is happy for individuals to copy his images, but not on the scale demanded by many users downloading a new image every half an hour. I should think he will block curl access too, if gtk-sunlight starts using it.

If I'm right, then bandwidth perhaps Carles (or some volunteer) could download images once an hour or so, and gtk-sunlight could point at Carles's server, so the rest of us would be getting the images second hand, and not straining die.net's bandwidth.

Of course, it would be nicer if we could communicate with die.net and just get permission to do what we're doing. I wouldn't mind making a micropayment for this - I really love the background. Say $1 per month?

Dominik