What the devil is 'hotlinking'?

[prof_porn]

I have been on here for ages, pushing 3000 posts etc.

I got pulled up for 'hotlinking' the other day. What is it, can someone explain?

Thanks,

E

 

[GregCentauro]

That's hotlinking. :hatsoff:

 

[prof_porn]

And why cant we do that?

Some people seem to be able to add pics in posts, others not?

 

[GregCentauro]

You probably didn't use an imagehost. (imagevenue, imagefra.me, etc.)

 

[Lungzyn]

It's to do with bandwidth theft I think
With the image tag thing, every time the image is loaded, the outside server has to use its bandwidth to display it.
This costs money for them, so they would want to avoid it.

 

[Lungzyn]

Double post :crash:

 

[Will E Worm]

Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs and bandwidth theft) is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.

Inline linking

:hatsoff:

 

[prof_porn]

And that's bad because?

 

[Will E Worm]

And that's bad because?

It can make a site go over its bandwidth limit or cost them more money for the extra bandwidth.

That's why it's called Bandwidth Theft.

 

[maildude]

You probably didn't use an imagehost. (imagevenue, imagefra.me, etc.)

Best advice. Use a host. Then all the ModSS can get you for is picture posting--which, TECHNICALLY, you're only allowed to do if you start the thread.

 

[jayaprak]

Best advice. Use a host. Then all the ModSS can get you for is picture posting--which, TECHNICALLY, you're only allowed to do if you start the thread.

yeah really