Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Image Hosting Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post InsaneBlue Posted at 10:14 am on July 6, 2009 What's the deal with downloading images rather than just hotlinking them? Some legal thing?

Replies barnabas Posted at 11:36 am on July 6, 2009 Quote: from InsaneBlue at 12:18 pm on July 6, 2009 Quote: from Darkane at 10:16 am on July 6, 2009 Well it sorta steals bandwidth from the site you're hotlinking from. Then they take measures like if you do it, a really fucked up image gets posted instead. It's an accepted practice though and not that many sites use anti-hotlinking. I have a hard time believing it was done just because it's nice. That's a hell of a lot of extra bandwidth LW is going to need to pay for. Wonder if there was some kind of a letter or something, bwahaha. Then again web hosting is cheap as chips these days. The added bandwidth may only cost a few bucks. read sam's answer it has a lot more to do with us than them. david wanted image control. InsaneBlue Posted at 10:18 am on July 6, 2009 Quote: from Darkane at 10:16 am on July 6, 2009 Well it sorta steals bandwidth from the site you're hotlinking from.   Then they take measures like if you do it, a really fucked up image gets posted instead. It's an accepted practice though and not that many sites use anti-hotlinking. I have a hard time believing it was done just because it's nice. That's a hell of a lot of extra bandwidth LW is going to need to pay for. Wonder if there was some kind of a letter or something, bwahaha. Then again web hosting is cheap as chips these days. The added bandwidth may only cost a few bucks. bighead1991 Posted at 10:18 am on July 6, 2009 It was put in origionally as a lot of topics get ruined when images get deleted off other servers; also so that moderators can review each image. Darkane Posted at 10:16 am on July 6, 2009 Well it sorta steals bandwidth from the site you're hotlinking from. Then they take measures like if you do it, a really fucked up image gets posted instead. All 4 previous replies displayed.