Thanks, mongoose.
In my case, they weren’t really hotlinking, either. Ok, they were… but the previous owner of the domain was allowing it and giving them something of value to them. Since I picked up the domain as expired, I had no obligation to maintain agreements made by the previous owner.
So, I did jump over the “is it ethical?” hurdle, but I guess I didn’t go through with it because I decided it just wasn’t very nice.
With bb1’s case, I’ve done that before too. I once picked up an expired domain with 9 dmoz listings in subdirectories, and setting up that same stucture was the first thing I did.
I’ve had cases like yours before too, arkyt, and you’re right, that was pure fun. 