I know. I was answering the "why don't Pinterest just hotlink" question, followed by the "what's wrong with hotlinking anyway?" question.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:56 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Pinterest isn't hotlinking. It is saving a copy of the picture on > their CDN and linking back to the original source. > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
