October 26, 2006

Hotlinking

Hotlinking is when a website embeds an image from your site into theirs. Everytime somebody loads their page, the image is actually being loaded from your host making it bandwidth theft. The only positive thing about having your images hotlinked by other sites is that once you find out about it, you can change the name of the image and put up whatever you desire to be shown on their site.

For example, when a christian site decides to steal bandwidth from me by hotlinking, I can do something like this:


Any questions?






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