| Definition of direct linking or
bandwidth theft, also known as hot linking |
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Posting or otherwise causing to appear an image which is hosted on
web space which you are not authorized to use, draining bandwidth from that
web space and costing its owner money every time your page containing the image is viewed.
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| You May
Not |
- You may NOT copy a picture (also known as
"copy and paste" or "cut and paste) from my
site and paste it to your site. This does not actually copy
the picture but copies the URL from my site which causes the
picture to be downloaded from my server every time someone
looks at your site.
- You may NOT make a link from your site,
discussion group or forum to my server that
causes a picture to be downloaded from my site each time your page is
accessed. This increases the bandwidth on my site and costs me money.
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| You May |
- Download a picture from my site to your computer
(right click & 'save as...) to upload to your server for use on
your web site or to a site which specializes in hosting
pictures such as Photobucket found at:
http://photobucket.com/
- Establish a link to one of my pages from your web
site
(Example: "For more weird recipes see Bert's
site")
- You may link to a page on my site but you
may NOT link to only the picture on that page.
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| To Sum Up |
- The ONLY way that you may use a picture
from my site is to download it to your own hard drive and
then use that downloaded picture to upload to your site,
forum, picture hosting site or
discussion group.
- In other words, you can link to a page but
you CANNOT link to a picture.
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