Website review: What is Hotlinking? Bandwidth Theft...
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maremare rated 4 months ago- HOTLINKING YOU MAY BE DOING THIS AND NOT KNOW IT... UNTIL YOU GET A FAILED IMAGE ON YOUR BLOG. It's ok to review a website or blogsite. But when you want to post an image from that site, use a photosharing website to save the photo and then post it from there. TO AVOID HOTLINKING, TRY SAVING YOUR IMAGES TO PHOTO-SHARING WEBSITES LIKE: Photobucket, Flickr, Webshots, Fokti, Imageshack, Dropshots, Smugmug, Picasaweb, etc. From the page: "What is hotlinking and bandwidth theft? Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an < img / > tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc. Bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred from a web site to a user's computer. When you view a web page, you are using that site's bandwidth to display the files. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue. If a site is over its monthly bandwidth, it's billed for the extra data or taken offline. A simple analogy for bandwidth theft: Imagine a random stranger plugging into your electrical outlets, using your electricity without your consent, and you paying for it. How Do I know I am hotlinking? This is how you might display an image graphic file in the HTML on your own web page: < img src="image.jpg" height="350" width="200" / > This tag tells the site to request the file image.jpg on the same server as the rest of the files on the site. If you were to hotlink an image from an outside server, the HTML might look like this: < img src="http://notmysite.com/image.jpg" height="350" width="200" / > This tag tells the site to request the image.jpg from a different server other than your own. Every time the page is loaded, the outside server has to use its bandwidth to display the image. To avoid this problem, don't link to files on servers that don't belong to you. To share images and files on your own web page, upload them to your own server's directory or to a free image hosting service that allows direct linking. Why should I stop hotlinking? Hotlinking can have a lot of undesirable consequences. One is the so-called "switcheroo". If you've linked to an image on someone's server, what's to prevent them from changing the image you linked to? This can have humorous results. Since most sites, forums, etc. have strict policies about offensive images, it wouldn't take much for an aggravated webmaster you've been stealing bandwidth from to shut you down completely with an unwanted "switcheroo". Displaying an image or file that doesn't belong to could be a violation of copyright, making you open to litigation. The owner of the file could utilize DMCA law to have your site shut down and your information given for use in legal proceedings. " To Read more about this topic, click on any of the links below: http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/04/02/hotlinking-is-bad/ http:// www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/hotlinking.shtml http://www.static8.com/hotlink.ht ml
- tyrone06spann rated 6 months ago
- thanks so much
- Katz82 rated 7 months ago
- ..i shall not steal bandwidth.
- zeynelo rated 15 months ago
- I don't think it's always such bad on every use. Except "legal" hotlinking like done for Flickr, on Stumbleupon many users "hotlink" to various images on their blog but these images link to original page. If this image would have been copyrighted and if user would upload it to another server would that be better, or worse?..
- heijjo rated 22 months ago
- Speaking of "hotlinking". This is a useful info page about that subject.
- dreama rated 24 months ago
Image hosting is FREE on a lot of sites such as Photobucket. There is no reason in this day and age for hotlinking and bandwidth theft to occur. Still there are people that are too lazy and don't care to do it the right way. When many people don't do it the right way THEY BREAK SHIT. Hence why hotlinking is illegal . I have a nasty feeling this is what happened to the Kittens of Darkness page - too many of you bastards were concerned about putting images on your pages instead of trying to host the images elsewhere and keeping the original site up -- now the site is down and your images are gone. Good going!!!
From the Page:
What is hotlinking and bandwidth theft? Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an tag to display a JPEG or GIF image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc.
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred from a web site to a user's computer. When you view a web page, you are using that site's bandwidth to display the files. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue. If a site is over its monthly bandwidth, it's billed for the extra data or taken offline.
A simple analogy for bandwidth theft: Imagine a random stranger plugging into your electrical outlets, using your electricity without your consent, and you paying for it.
- Thlayli rated 28 months ago
- Just the normal reasons not to hotlink. But it also has a form to check if a server has hotlinking disabled. Awesome.
