If a bazillion users became interested in reading your articles that's one thing. You can turn pro, upgrade your hosting package and be happy.
But articles on a busy site that includes a hotlinked *image* from yours only causes your own bandwidth to be consumed with no returns to you. Why should you pay big bucks to host an image for somebody else's benefit? That's why there's now a distinction being made. Sure, your logic is sound, but it still pisses people off. It's like when people use your front lawn to take a shortcut across your corner property. You don't like it and will put up a fence to stop it. But shortcutting is a logical thing for people to do. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:27 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > The same thing can happen simply by linking to the site. It the risk > you run by making your content available to the entire planet. > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > > > -- > David Parsons Photography > http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com > > Aloha Photographer Photoblog > http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ > > -- > 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. -- -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.
