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Computer Blog - thebroadroom.net: Which is worse, hotlinking or "stealing" images?
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
common sense, and willingness to take risks when applying any of the information below.
Which is worse, hotlinking or "stealing" images?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, May 06, 2005
at 5:58 PM (Pacific)
I wondered that myself, actually, quite a while ago. Is it better to hotlink an image, or download the image to your computer and then host it on your own server?
Well, running a site tells me that hotlinking is NOT a good idea. It is much better to host the image. It's best (and standard practice) to include a line at the bottom of your borrowed image, saying: "Image courtesy of thebroadroom.net" or wherever you got it. And everyone is happy. But it's better to host the image uncredited, than it is to hotlink it.
The problem is not the person hotlinking one image on a relatively low-traffic site, nor is it the person hotlinking a tiny image on a relatively high-traffic site. We have both of these; doesn't bother me.
The problem are the people who hotlink large images that are viewed over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, unto eternity. Why should we pay for this laziness? How long does it take to right-click an image, download it, and then upload it to Photobucket or whatever?
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