John McCain had his MySpace page adjusted on Tuesday. The real skinny here is that McCain's web folks were using another person's bandwidth to host his photo. Web pro news explains: Somebody on the Arizona Senator and Presidential candidate's campaign staff has some explaining to do about a change to McCain's profile on MySpace.

John McCain MySpace Page Hacked: Now 'Supports' Lesbian Marriage (Image: Newsvine)

It's been a long-standing practice where people borrow HTML from other sites to work into theirs. As websites have grown in sophistication, the ability to use templates to quickly create blogs or profiles on popular destinations like MySpace has become part of the Internet.

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A message was placed on the website supporting lesbian marriage. "Dear Supporters, Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage … particularly marriage between two passionate females."

On his own website, the co-founder of Newsvine, Mike Davidson, claimed responsibility for pulling the prank. Davidson explained a few things the McCain campaign did in an impolite fashion when integrating the Senator and the template on MySpace:

You see, John McCain's people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace design template and did a few things wrong:

They did not credit me for the template, even though the template explicitly requested credit.

They used my own unmodified imagery, specifically for the "Contacting John McCain" table.

As if #2 wasn't bad enough, the McCain crew is actually pulling their image directly from my server on each page load. So every time someone visits the McCain MySpace page, my bandwidth is being used to deliver part of the page! Bad McCain!

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David A. Utter writes: In true geek fashion, and with a sense of humor about it, Davidson made an emphatic point about bandwidth theft:

So, the only thing necessary to effectively commandeer McCain's page with my own messaging was to simply replace my own sample image on my server with a newly created sample on my server. No server but my own was touched and no laws were broken. The immaculate hack.