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Rose
PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:56 pm    Post subject: What is Hotlinking? Bandwidth theft Reply with quote

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Under no circumstances should you ever direct link to an image on someone's blog or website.

Direct linking also known as hotlinking is when you type something like
Code:
<img src="http://www.bloggertalk.net/modules/Gallery/gallery/blogheaders/Eternity.png">
to display something like one of our blog headers, instead of actually saving it and uploading it to your own server or hosting it somewhere else like photobucket.

You are stealing our bandwidth when you link to our images, because it uses data transfer, and we have to pay for it.

Always save the image and upload it to your own blog unless the website states otherwise.
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Shawn
PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:32 pm    Post subject: What is Hotlinking? Badwidth theft Reply with quote

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Excellent Rose!

I also added a page to Invision-Graphics.com and it can be found here.


Stop Bandwidth Theft


Other resources about hotlinking



What is hotlinking and bandwidth theft?

Inline linking From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Preventing hot linking of images and other file types


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