EricTViking
Yes, I am Queeg
+48|6522|UK

Jenspm wrote:

Question: to test this, can I copy the image adress and past it in the adress bar to see if the real image comes up?
Unless they change the image after you have linked to it.

I was reviewing my web server logs a while ago, and found that a commercial site ( rival ) had hot linked an image from my e-commerce site. Basically every time someone hit their website, the image was downloaded from my server - I have to pay for the bandwidth used.

So I modified the image to have my website address across it - looked great on my site, but looked really stupid on theirs ;-) They soon put their own image on their own site.

So best to make sur ethe image you link to isn't likely to be changed to anything iffy.  Better still host the image yourself.
jsnipy
...
+3,276|6493|...

<-- guilty

... also guilty ...
https://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1848/ojpe6.jpg
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

Jenspm wrote:

Question: to test this, can I copy the image adress and past it in the adress bar to see if the real image comes up?
Fraid not, as that would be going directly to the image, only way you can make sure it won't happen to you is by previewing before you post.

For people not understanding I'll try and explain.

Whenever you look at anything on the Internet you are using bandwidth, and bandwidth on the Internet costs money to the owner of that site. Whenever you link to a picture from another site your browser has to go to that site and get the information that makes up that picture from the other page. This means that the content from the other page is being used without either the consent of the page owner or without you actually going to that page, essentially frauding that page from hits over the Internet. Now many website owners got annoyed with this, so decided instead of people being able to do this and freely use their bandwidth (and therefore money) they started locking it out in some way (that I don't understand) and replacing any image you tried to post from their site with one like this

https://www.aspnetresources.com/images/no_leeching.gif

(yes I realise the irony/hypocrisy above)

But this didn't really stop people trying, so instead of a obvious (if rather funny) warning they replaced that sort of picture with pornography and images which many forums do not allow there by causing the thief to be banned/blocked from that forum and slow down the amount of bandwidth that said person can steal.



Essentially just click preview before you post any images, that will show you whether or not the owner of that material is allowing you to show it away from his/her site.

If anything I've said up there is incorrect just tell me, I'm just going by what I understand.
Kung Jew
That one mod
+331|6716|Houston, TX
Very well explained.  +1.

Thanks,

KJ
pfc_toecutter
meatshield
+38|6589|Houston, TX
gotcha
PspRpg-7
-
+961|6668

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
BigmacK
Back from the Dead.
+628|6721|Chicago.

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
That course of action is of questionable legality...
PspRpg-7
-
+961|6668

BigmacK wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
That course of action is of questionable legality...
Who's gonna know?
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

PspRpg-7 wrote:

BigmacK wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
That course of action is of questionable legality...
Who's gonna know?
God??
PspRpg-7
-
+961|6668

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

BigmacK wrote:


That course of action is of questionable legality...
Who's gonna know?
God??
What's he going to do? Sue you?
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6598|UK

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

BigmacK wrote:


That course of action is of questionable legality...
Who's gonna know?
God??
Don't worry, I'll turn a blind eye
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:


Who's gonna know?
God??
What's he going to do? Sue you?
Eternal hellfire is his main course of action I think
PspRpg-7
-
+961|6668

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Towelly wrote:


God??
What's he going to do? Sue you?
Eternal hellfire is his main course of action I think
Well, I'm not on fire.
BigmacK
Back from the Dead.
+628|6721|Chicago.

Towelly wrote:

God??
Precisley. lol

PspRpg-7 wrote:

What's he going to do? Sue you?
Or the person who made the original image, if they happen to visit the site.
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:


What's he going to do? Sue you?
Eternal hellfire is his main course of action I think
Well, I'm not on fire.
Not yet....
PspRpg-7
-
+961|6668

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Towelly wrote:


Eternal hellfire is his main course of action I think
Well, I'm not on fire.
Not yet....
You'd think he'd of caught me on fire by now.
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Towelly wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:


Well, I'm not on fire.
Not yet....
You'd think he'd of caught me on fire by now.
He may have other issues to attend to..
De_Jappe
Triarii
+432|6498|Belgium

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
what about not going to so much trouble and right click on the image, save image as. save it on your computer and then host it. No need to do it the paint way!
Towelly
It's A State Of Mind
+399|6561|Your attic

De_Jappe wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
what about not going to so much trouble and right click on the image, save image as. save it on your computer and then host it. No need to do it the paint way!
God will be coming for you as well
De_Jappe
Triarii
+432|6498|Belgium

Towelly wrote:

De_Jappe wrote:

PspRpg-7 wrote:

Just hit "print screen" on the image you want to post. Crop it in paint. Host it. Post it.
what about not going to so much trouble and right click on the image, save image as. save it on your computer and then host it. No need to do it the paint way!
God will be coming for you as well
great, always wanted to meet him in RL
Chou
Member
+737|6761
What an excellent way to say: pr0n is a no-no


btw who ever used that as an excuse?
"sorry dude I linked a pic of a couple of monkeys from Greenpeace and the next thing you know it's freaking buttsecks"
https://sc.tri-bit.com/images/2/26/Buttsecks-monkeys.jpg

Last edited by Choumichel (2006-09-26 15:25:40)

Ryan
Member
+1,230|6814|Alberta, Canada

Wow, I didn't know they could do that.

Good rule.
XISIX
Member
+116|6585
So ..... I've gotta ask -

If people preview a 'hotlinked' image before they post -
that is no guarantee that
the Bandwidth champion will not change image to something inappropriate afterwards
so

previewing is not necessarily protection, correct ?

Thanks for reply in advance.


p.s.

Someone I know once changed a web image to nasty obese Czechoslovakian porn to get back at a
'hotlinker'.

Last edited by XISIX (2006-09-26 15:50:34)

Hurricane
Banned
+1,153|6601|Washington, DC

Wouldn't changing the image to be porn if it's hotlinked be a violation of the law? You can't provide porn to minors, and you have to give a warning that it is porn. If there is no warning and it does that, then the site itself is violating the law...
Sone
i piss excellence
+22|6494|Houston (Spring), TX
KJ, what part of houston are you from!?

i'm from spring/woodlands

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