-- Posted by InsaneBlue at 10:14 am on July 6, 2009 What's the deal with downloading images rather than just hotlinking them? Some legal thing? -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by bighead1991 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. -- Posted by InsaneBlue 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. -- Posted by Hi Carie 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.