I know, we've had similar threads before but it's always fun to read them.
Mine prob was when i just entered this industry. 10, 12 years ago or so?
I had my first paysite running, no clue about servers, BW, traffic, etc.
I submitted a "gallery" The Hun. It was just a bunch of clickable pictures that were part of my tour.
Within minutes after getting listed i could smell the smoke coming out of my Raq3 server through my screen
I quickly uploaded the full sized pics to Geocities and hotlinked the thumbs from my server. And honestly, i had no clue this was wrong. I didn't try to screw anyone over, i was just keeping my server alive
Obviously my gallery got removed pretty soon after that and i got banned from The Hun.
I sent him an email explaining i truly didn't do this just to leech someone else's BW and Patrick unbanned me right away...how cool is that :D