On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >I don't really understand why people copy other people's pictures onto > > >their own servers when they could link to them perfectly legally: > > > > A lot of sites have their .htaccess file set up to prevent hotlinking > > this way. > > > > I can't understand that either - what's the internet for if not that? > > B
It was designed that way, but folks call that "bandwidth-stealing" now if you hotlink their images from your site. And it's for a practical reason ... Say you have a basic $5/month limited hosting service with your blog "Cormo-Rants" on it. One day somebody from CNN hotlinks an image from your site, and suddenly your daily bandwidth usage goes through the roof. Your host shuts down your site when your monthly allotment is used up in 4 days. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
